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bluffing
adjective as in dishonest
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adjective as in pretended
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adjective as in sly
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- arch
- artful
- astute
- cagey
- calculating
- captious
- conniving
- covert
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- designing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- insidious
- mean
- plotting
- scheming
- secret
- sharp
- shifty
- slick
- smooth
- sneaking
- stealthy
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in sneaking
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- artful
- astute
- cagey
- canny
- captious
- covert
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-dealing
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- impish
- ingenious
- insidious
- mischievous
- roguish
- secret
- secretive
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- surreptitious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in untruthful
noun as in fooling
noun as in pretending
Example Sentences
"A lot of people thought he was bluffing on more than a few things," he says.
For all these reasons, when Mohan declares that YouTube will remain the epicenter of culture, he’s not bluffing.
While speaking to a group of business leaders on Friday, Trudeau said that Trump is not bluffing about his plans to turn Canada into "the 51st state."
They were highly organised and unlikely to be bluffing - the traffickers had texted her children directly in the past and knew where they lived and which school they went to.
As the conference approached its scheduled end this week, the U.N.’s climate chief chided negotiators for digging in their heels and wasting time with bluffing and brinkmanship.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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