Crossword-Solution: BAMBOOZLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bamboozle | v. t. | To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. |
We have 62 clues for the answer “BAMBOOZLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blame bozo (anag) – confound, mystify | 1 answer |
| to hoax | 1 answer |
| outsmart | 19 answers |
| Hornswoggle | 19 answers |
| cozen | 23 answers |
| befool | 24 answers |
| Gammon | 26 answers |
| outwit | 30 answers |
| Scam | 33 answers |
| Delude | 33 answers |
| enshroud | 34 answers |
| Encode | 35 answers |
| gyp | 37 answers |
| Mystify | 37 answers |
| befog | 38 answers |
| BUFFALO ___ | 38 answers |
| Defraud | 41 answers |
| misdirect | 41 answers |
| Befuddle | 42 answers |
| *Hoodwink | 43 answers |
| bilk | 45 answers |
| Amaze | 46 answers |
| shroud | 47 answers |
| Bedim | 48 answers |
| Involve | 49 answers |
| Beguile | 50 answers |
| Bewilder | 51 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| Inhibit | 52 answers |
| Entangle | 53 answers |
| Cloak | 55 answers |
| Thwart | 55 answers |
| Gull | 55 answers |
| complicate | 56 answers |
| Perplex | 56 answers |
| Hoax | 58 answers |
| Confound | 59 answers |
| Baffle | 59 answers |
| Hassle | 64 answers |
| Frustrate | 65 answers |
| Kid | 65 answers |
| Impede | 67 answers |
| Vex | 68 answers |
| Job | 69 answers |
| Veil | 69 answers |
| Obstruct | 71 answers |
| Hinder | 71 answers |
| chicane | 72 answers |
| bluff | 74 answers |
| Non-plus? | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BAMBOOZLE (5)
Now, as every one knew such a thing to be ludicrously impossible, it was at once noised abroad in Canaan that Joe had helped to swindle Judge Pike out of a large sum of money--it was notorious that the shyster could bamboozle court and jury with his tricks; and it was felt that Joe Louden was getting into very deep waters indeed.
And"--he continued--"if you're trying to bamboozle a gullible world by concocting a tale as silly as your remarks to me would seem to indicate, I will say that as a cheap author you are taking undue liberties with your family, meaning myself.
The thing to see to is that they should not confuse you, bamboozle you, and hide you from the knowledge of yourself--that they should not be erected into a screen, to hide you from others, or the others from you.
But the greatest abuse of all is, that these creatures are become their own lawgivers; nay, I think they are ours too, though nobody would imagine that such a set of slatterns should bamboozle a whole nation; but it is neither better nor worse, they hire themselves to you by their own rule.
Whether "Maria" really did exist, and the Count deliberately set to work to bamboozle her (she was fool enough for anything), or whether she was a mere hallucination of Whibley's, and the man tricked Whibley by "hypnotic suggestions" (as I believe it is called), I am not prepared to say.
Quotes with BAMBOOZLE (3)
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.
He took a step back to distance himself from her wicked, mind-consuming scent. In the future if he wanted to bamboozle an opponent in the karate ring, all he had to do was splash on some eau de Christina.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Three Across.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1994–2010).