out-bluff
verb[T]
(alsooutbluff)uk/ˌaʊtˈblʌf/us/ˌaʊtˈblʌf/tobluffsomeone(=deceivethem by making themthinkthat you are going to do something when you do not reallyintendto do it)betterthan they areabletobluffyou:
It was a verytightchessgamewhich shewonby out-bluffing heropponent.
Thecommanderhadingeniouslyout-bluffed amilitarilysuperiorenemy.
- Goodlucktryingto outbluff her - she's a veryshrewdoperator.
- Thenegotiationwas atenseaffairwith eachpartytryingto out-bluff the other.
- Thewinneris the one who can out-bluff hisopponentandkeephishandon thebuttonthelongest.
Faking & pretending
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- cry
- false
- false modesty
- falsifiable
- falsify
- feign
- massage
- mountebank
- passsomethingoff assomething
- phoney
- play-act
- professed
- purport
- quack