bamboozlement

Example Sentences

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He immediately exports the revolution back to Barbieland, where the ruling Barbies seem to melt immediately under the bamboozlement of the Kenaissance and its boys-only minifridges.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023

As my friend Todd Gitlin once wrote, news coverage that treats politics as an insiders' game invites the public to become "cognoscenti of their own bamboozlement," which is strange.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2021

We enjoy being fooled, and we also take pleasure in studying the machinery of our bamboozlement.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2020

The open-and-closed Roz bamboozlement doesn’t fit into that framework.

From Time • Feb. 20, 2012

I have long been skeptical of the bamboozlement theory, because in my experience it does not ring true.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker