Crossword-Solution: BLUFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bluff | a. | Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. |
| Bluff | a. | Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. |
| Bluff | a. | Surly; churlish; gruff; rough. |
| Bluff | a. | Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. |
| Bluff | n. | A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. |
| Bluff | n. | An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff. |
| Bluff | n. | A game at cards; poker. |
| Bluff | v. t. | To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value. |
| Bluff | v. t. | To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off. |
| Bluff | v. i. | To act as in the game of bluff. |
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Sentences with BLUFF (5)
When Emil said he was hungry, they drew back from the road, gave Brigham his oats among the bushes, and climbed up to the top of a grassy bluff to eat their lunch under the shade of some little elm trees.
CHAPTER I THE PLANT MEN As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.
And before the afternoon was done, they had all managed to enjoy the sweet glory of spreading the fact that pretty soon the town would “hear something.” All who got this vague hint were cautioned to “be mum and wait.” About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a few trifles, and stopped in a dense undergrowth on a small bluff overlooking the meeting-place.
Then the rat-faced one, with several companions, ascended the low bluff on which stood the tree that concealed Tarzan.
The features expressed nothing of monastic austerity, or of ascetic privations; on the contrary, it was a bold bluff countenance, with broad black eyebrows, a well-turned forehead, and cheeks as round and vermilion as those of a trumpeter, from which descended a long and curly black beard.
Quotes with BLUFF (3)
He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where no one could see his pain and his shame. Unconsciously, he reached up and fisted the little black pearl in his fingers, searching for words, praying to the Almighty for the words that would let him have her. But they would not come. They were not needed, when the truth was in his eyes.
I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff.
What did you give your kids, besides a lottery of genes? A stance--that mix of bluff and confidence, backbone and wussiness that passes for personality or character. One talks less about ethics after third grade. Don't steal candy or hit other children, if they hadn't learned the costs of violence on their own.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).