How To Use Bamboozle In A Sentence
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Another one is 'bamboozle' which I always picture as a dorkish bumbling dimwit, but a lovable one.
Archive 2005-10-01
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But without a background in trading, it's easy to be bamboozled by market jargon.
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Just don't be bamboozled into buying the most expensive labels.
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John Curry from the Australian Shareholders' Association says those that get caught are often unsophisticated investors, bamboozled by flashy letterheads.
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| Reply | Permalink anybody who thinks "bamboozle" is "a black thing," or somehow "code" aimed at African-Americans, has obviously missed years of Josh Marshal's coverage of GOP "Bamboozlement (tm) (c)" ever since at least 2004, if not since the site started. get a clue, people.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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The ever-smiling genius bamboozled the defender before dinking a lovely ball through to Roberto Carlos, who blasted straight at the keeper from 10 yards.
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Livewire winger Peter McCann bamboozled Gavin Dykes with a slick piece of footwork before setting up the in-rushing Fitzgerald who swept the ball past O'Hare from unmissable range.
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As someone who has seen and used those words -- especially "bamboozle" -- in appellate legal briefs, I find that surprising.
Obama On Track For Big Victory In Mississippi Today
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Hmmmmmmm. Sounds like we all were bamboozled from the get-go and the DNC planned all along to make Obama the nominee.
DNC moving operations to Chicago
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Reporters and editors are credulous, fearful, and flatly bamboozled.
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Some of the artists I'm like "meh" but some I think are real cool -- For instance, Andrea Zittel, among whose specialties is making the most of confined living spaces, Michael Ray Charles, who was a consultant on the Spike Lee joint Bamboozled, and Maya Lin, best known as creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Mid-week Items
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I'm not sure "okey-doke" "bamboozle" and "hoodwink" are the hippest terms to use, but I suppose he is speaking to a diverse audience, and Clinton has been claiming the senior vote, so, sure why not.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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During the next few weeks, I intend to do whatever I can to wake up those African Americans who have become "bamboozled" into believing that a moderately educated, southern white women will do something for them.
Here's what should not happen... (Blog for Democracy)
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The Indian mask that bamboozled the big cats would hardly have conned any human.
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“Abortion on demand: empowerment — or bamboozlement — of women?”
ProWomanProLife » When abortion endangers your health
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‘Don't try to bamboozle them by smuggling in bits of fruit or vegetables,’ says Cormac.
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Now that the beneficiaries of the free trade 'bamboozlement are off to their private islands in their private jets or private yachts the rest of us are looking around at the devastation of our economy and standard of living, wondering what to do and finally becoming aware that rigid ideologies and their enforcers have kept us from looking for practical solutions that actually work for all of us as a country and community.
Dave Johnson: Consensus Grows: Confront China on Trade
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It can't be easy to find rich suckers who can be bamboozled into buying this.
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She was bamboozled into telling them her credit card number.
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Finally, World Climate Report rips into the biased reporting that has bamboozled the world on this issue.
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| Reply | Permalink golly, if one was a suspicious type, one would think this was highly orchestrated p.r. move to hoodwink those 'low info' voters and the cable news chattermonkeys. what's that word josh likes to use -- oh yeah, 'bamboozle' the yokels.
None Of Republican Moderates Who "Warned" Bush Voted For Iraq Bill
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Capehart wrote (via Twitter, of course) that he had been "bamboozled," adding: "Lesson here: Never let a good opening get in the way of that final fact-check.
"Worst Week in Washington" Winner: Twitter!
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But the older brother (your husband), pardon me for saying so, has you completely bamboozled - into thinking not only that this is an acceptable and normal situation (it's not), but also that you're being "unreasonable" for even suggesting his brother be a better guest or (God forbid) stop using your place as a shtup-shack, pied-à-terre and party palace while you're away.
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He bamboozled the old lady out of her diamond ring.
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Inconspicuously dressed in a kilt, sporran, dagger, and ‘black mask of Osiris’, Crowley crept down the suburban road from Olympia and bamboozled his way into the sacred vaults.
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His bill not only includes some $400 million a year in direct subsidies, but it also attempts to bamboozle us with linguistic hocus-pocus, simply defining away the industry's environmental ugliness.
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If students and supervisors find themselves initially bamboozled with beginning an exegesis, then I suggest that they read the exegeses of others and talk to candidates who are further advanced in the processes.
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If he manages to use these three 'Bs' to bamboozle a credulous electorate into voting him back into power it will be the bounden duty of the said Establishment to remove him.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Thenceforth, for a week, the Young Manchus meant to separate, revert to Chinese costume, live in Chinese boardinghouses in the East End, and thus utterly mislead and bamboozle the police, who, in their hunt for the miscreants, would be searching for Chinamen in European dress and living in European style.
Number Seventeen
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Many opponents were so bamboozled they simply resort to fouling him.
The Sun
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Much of this desperate bamboozlement looks pretty transparent today.
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This short play is as fine a specimen as an audience seeking bamboozlement could wish.
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He bamboozled me into exchanging the foreign currency.
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While virtually every dictionary describes the origins of ‘bamboozle’ as shrouded in obscurity, a few etymologists maintain its nautical pedigree.
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What I'm talking about are serial losers and bamboozlers, serial frauds and fakes, serial blusterers and blowhards.
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The economy for its success requires organized public bamboozlement.
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The answer to most issues, according to the FOS, is for the consumer to establish the suitability of a product by asking more questions, not being bamboozled by jargon and being made to feel stupid.
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If Obama gets the nomination, the issues will not matter to me, who cares about war, taxes and the economy, or abortion rights only the fact the my candidate was beaten fairly by some "uppity newcomer" who was able to somehow "bamboozle" the majority of democratic primary voters.
Obama campaign makes general election plans
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Many opponents were so bamboozled they simply resort to fouling him.
The Sun
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She bamboozled Grandfather into marrying her.
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Now she has her wealthy bully supporters making threats to the Democrats if they don't support her in trying to "bamboozle" this election.
Sources: Clinton supporter pressures Pelosi
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This enables the authoritarians to bamboozle the people into thinking they are still free.
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So, in conclusion, one might say that the answer to criticism is not to come clean but to bamboozle the oiks who criticise you.
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Don't let him "hoodwink" you or "bamboozle" you with his clever shell game, Barack.
McCain says Obama's Iraq trip would convince him of success
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What I'm talking about are serial losers and bamboozlers, serial frauds and fakes, serial blusterers and blowhards.
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Obama is a shammer, and he's got you all bamboozled.
Full Text Of Obama's Big Race Speech: A Big Break With Political Precedent
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To understand ground rents and land prices is to understand cities; not to understand is to remain mired forever in confusion and fallacy, to be gulled and misled and bamboozled, which is, indeed and alas, the common lot of mankind.
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GABE: Well, I wanted to go, but I felt kind of bamboozled, because they were telling me I had to go right then and there and that's part of the technique.
CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2005
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It's too quaint to be seen as overly nasty - the Clintons are trying to "bamboozle" you, not you're being lied to.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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An eye catching assistant often relieves the magician from the drudgery of bamboozlement.
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He bamboozled me into exchanging the foreign currency.
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Even the most diehard personal finance addict is likely to be bamboozled by this one.
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The duck has qualities - nay, powers - that bamboozle the hapless magician and his assistant.
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She sounded like she was repeating something that had been dunned into her again and again, and seemed bamboozled over that bit of pink stone!
The Pink Dress
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As far as the Ontario farmers are concerned, they will not be "bamboozled" by any of these wild promises made by the socialistic party.
Canadian Agriculture in the War Effort
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If you heft the egg afterward it's as light as feather, and not very filling when you're hungry; but a basketful of them would make quite a show and would bamboozle the unwary.
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Documents rarely set out to trick historians, but they can bamboozle the unwary at every turn.
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The defenders were bamboozled, the crowd amazed.
The Sun
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They just can't avoid being manipulated, tricked, conned, used, snookered, bamboozled, hoodwinked, rum amok and conned by men.
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The defenders were bamboozled, the crowd amazed.
The Sun
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Harry talks about the excise men being bamboozled by coffins being carried up the hill and across the moors containing, of course, smuggled booty rather than bodies.
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I'm especially pleased that he's been such a strong and cogent voice on Social Security since we are sure to face a new tide of bamboozlement in the week ahead.
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The defenders were bamboozled, the crowd amazed.
The Sun
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We must all now be open to the possibility that we have beenblatantly bamboozled on 9/11 andcan no longerbe afraid of the truth.
ARE AMERICANS AFRAID OF 9/11 TRUTH ?
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Let's see if there's any way to get the media and various other members of the capital's elect to avoid another round of self-administered bamboozlement.
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I like Obama because he uses words like "hoodwink" and "bamboozle" in political speeches.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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Many opponents were so bamboozled they simply resort to fouling him.
The Sun
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Another attempt by Republican Obstructionists to "bamboozle" the American taxpayers.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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Compare and contrast with The Daily Telegraph leader, headed: "We won't be fooled out of our referendum" – "bamboozled" in the print edition.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Before being bamboozled by the sheaves of glossy brochures, make sure that managed funds are the most suitable investment vehicle for you.
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In Krakow as a prisoner, Poldek had used a German document, issued to enable him to visit his soldiers in a military hospital further east, to bamboozle a barely literate German guard.
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For a party member to win high office in the face of human nature requires him or her to pull the wool over the voters' eyes, to bamboozle them away from the evident truth.
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Wide.8 min: A brilliant bit of skill from Zaha, who totally bamboozles Park with a soft-shoe shimmy, gets kicked on the shin and wins Palace a free-kick wide on the left.
Manchester United v Crystal Palace
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She has written about this political conversion in the past and described it almost as a revelation of clarity, saying the right had "bamboozled" her.
The Guardian World News
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The short lesson is that no amount of bamboozlement and bluster will save politicians - or political operatives - when reality contradicts them.
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He adopted the persona of princess Alice of Gloucester, and despite being caught several times with a mysterious moustache on public occasions, was able to bamboozle everyone outside of a small circle of trusted friends.
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He bamboozled Mercer into defeat.
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Mahmoud Abbas "bamboozled" Benjamin Netanyahu by playing hard to get and refusing to come to the peace table.
David Suissa: Bibi's Next Move
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We've been bamboozled, fam!
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The con artist bamboozled her out of $600.
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This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
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Yet almost everyone - including the Waddington Gallery and even Tate (which showed interest in a Julius Bissier until the artist's foundation rejected it) - was bamboozled by the documents.
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I use "bamboozle" all the time, because no other word really captures the essence of a snake-oil con-job quite as perfectly.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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Some stores are trying to bamboozle exhausted shoppers with illusory bargains.
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I also find it interesting that Obama is characterizing Hillary's suggestion that the two would make a good unity ticket (with her on the top, naturally) as just an attempt to "hoodwink" and "bamboozle" voters.
Top Obama Adviser: Hillary Must Remove Ferraro From Campaign
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The notion that President Obama is some sort of "anti-colonial" radical is, as they say, demented, considering the fact that the White House has largely accepted the Rubinian diktat that rescuing America from its financial decline can only be achieved by re-enabling the same rogue financiers to get back to their business of bamboozlement.
Dinesh D'Souza Docks In America's Safest Harbor For Lackwits [UPDATE]
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To the death she refused to be bamboozled by dubious reasoning.
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Courtesy is a luxury that real reporters often have to sacrifice in the line of duty, especially when bamboozled by double talk.
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For all of the handwringing and concern trolling and conserva-snarking about how his progressivism is part of a cynical bamboozlement or hijacking of the left, leading to nothing but tears and disappointment, Obama has in the first 48 hours of his presidency proven to be astonishingly progressive.
No More White Lies, The President Is Black | ATTACKERMAN
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The argument is that big institutions can't get bamboozled by hype the way the rest of us rubes can.
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He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
