mystified
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Gell-Mann noted that "the last refuge of the obscurantists and mystifiers is self-awareness, consciousness."
From Scientific American • May 26, 2019
Nay, now he began to suspect a hoax, and actually complimented himself on his shrewdness in having suspected and outmanoeuvred his mystifiers.
From New Arabian Nights by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The worst part of this wicked trick was, that the lady wore hair-powder, and the mystifiers carried umbrellas.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
I am glad he is the same: I began to think the mystifiers here were as dangerous as those of the champagne country.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various
Those having the matter in charge were not professional mystifiers of the public, and showed no desire to conceal anything.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
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