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were bamboozled
verb
To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
Exact(31)
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?
Similar(29)
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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