Sentence examples for were bamboozled from inspiring English sources

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were bamboozled

verb

To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

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We feel like we were bamboozled".

From a relatively simple corner kick routine, Scotland were bamboozled.

The Scandinavians are good athletes, but Norway's defenders were bamboozled by Marta.

"We were bamboozled," said State Representative Garnet F. Coleman, a Democrat.

People who voted for him on economic issues are going to realise they were bamboozled by a salesman".

Is he implying that mass audiences were bamboozled into frivolous entertainment as a way of keeping them pacified?

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When they weren't bamboozling the President, the Reaganites were bamboozling the citizenry.

We must be bamboozled.

I think your staff are being bamboozled".

You've been bamboozled by the Hermanator".

He had been "bamboozled and humbugged".

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