bluffed
past simple and past participle ofbluff
bluff
verb[IorT]
uk/blʌf/us/blʌf/todeceivesomeone by making themthinkeither that you are going to do something when you really have nointentionof doing it, or that you haveknowledgethat you do not really have, or that you are someoneelse:
Is he going tojumpor is he only bluffing?
Tonyseemstoknowa lot aboutmusic, but sometimes Ithinkhe's only bluffing.
She bluffed thedoormanintothinkingthat she was areporter.
bluffyourway into/out ofsomething
If you bluffyourway into or out of asituation, you get yourself into or out of it bydeceivingpeople:
How did Minamanageto bluff her way into thatjob?
He's one of thosepeoplewho is very good at bluffingtheirway out oftrouble.
Faking & pretending
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- cry
- false
- false modesty
- falsifiable
- falsify
- feign
- massage
- mountebank
- out-bluff
- passsomethingoff assomething
- phoney
- professed
- purport
- quackery
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Cheating & tricking
Examplesofbluffed
bluffed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is a game that we can bebluffedout of so easily.
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It is not putting it too high to say that theybluffedthemselves in and searched the premises.
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Patients arebluffedinto buying private frames at high fees, when there is no reason to do so at all.
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I understand that some 170 firms of timber importers in this country have already beenbluffed.
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I hope they will not bebluffedby the apparent present reasonableness of this régime.
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They can bluff, and that jury wasbluffed.
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Then even if the people have the sense not to bebluffed, what happens?
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We should not bebluffedby the fear that there will be a collapse in oil prices.
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I am sure that no councillor who is, frankly, worth his salt would let himself bebluffedby his officials.
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I do not think that anyone in this country was afraid of, or wasbluffedby that talk of war.
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The community at large are not going to bebluffedin the future as they have been in the past.
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They havebluffedand bullied the councils into carrying it out.
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My party will not bebluffed.
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He wasbluffedout of the game.
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Ribault, believing his hungry men would be fed and decently treated, allowed himself to bebluffedinto surrender.
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