bamboozlement

• abashment
• agitation
• artifice
• bafflement
• baloney
• barratry
• befuddlement
• bemusement
• bewilderedness
• bewilderment
• bill of goods
• blackmail
• bother
• bunco
• chagrin
• cheat
• chicane
• chicanery
• commotion
• con
• con game
• confusedness
• confusion
• cover up
• cozening
• craft
• deceit
• deception
• dirty pool
• dirty trick
• discombobulation
• discomfiture
• discomfort
• disconcertment
• dismay
• disquiet
• distraction
• distress
• disturbance
• dither
• dodge
• double-dealing
• dupery
• duping
• duplicity
• embarrassment
• extortion
• fake
• fast one
• fast shuffle
• fix
• flimflam
• flurry
• fluster
• fog
• fourberie
• frame
• fraud
• fraudulence
• fuss
• graft
• guile
• hanky-panky
• head-scratching
• hoax
• hoaxing
• hocus-pocus
• hoodwinking
• humbug
• hustle
• imposture
• jazz
• jive
• line
• maze
• misrepresentation
• mortification
• muddle
• mystification
• perplexity
• perturbation
• plant
• put on
• puzzlement
• racket
• ripoff
• run around
• scam
• sell
• shady deal
• shakedown
• sham
• sharp practice
• shell game
• skunk
• smoke
• snow job
• song
• song and dance
• spoof
• spuriousness
• stew
• sting
• stunt
• swindle
• swindling
• tangle
• treachery
• trick
• trickery
• turmoil
• upset
• whirl
• whitewash
• wrong

• artlessness
• assurance
• certainty
• certitude
• confidence
• conviction
• entertainment
• fairness
• forthrightness
• frankness
• honesty
• justice
• openness
• positiveness
• reality
• sincerity
• sureness
• truth
• truthfulness

• noun
  1. The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.

• The magician's act was full of surprises, leaving the audience in a state of bamboozlement.
• His elaborate scheme resulted in the bamboozlement of several unsuspecting investors.
• After the complex explanation, she felt a sense of bamboozlement about the entire situation.
• The unexpected twist in the story led to the bamboozlement of readers everywhere.
• The salesperson’s tactics caused a great deal of bamboozlement, making it hard for customers to see through the tricks.

bafflement

• abashment
• ado
• adverse fate
• adversity
• aggravation
• agitation
• annoyance
• anxiety
• bamboozlement
• befuddlement
• bemusement
• bewilderedness
• bewilderment
• blow
• bother
• care
• chagrin
• charge
• commotion
• complication
• confusedness
• confusion
• crisis
• daze
• defeat
• depression
• despondency
• discombobulation
• discomfiture
• discomfort
• disconcertment
• discontent
• discouragement
• disenchantment
• disgruntlement
• disillusion
• disillusionment
• dismay
• disorientation
• disquiet
• dissatisfaction
• distraction
• distress
• disturbance
• dither
• embarrassment
• emergency
• exigency
• failure
• flurry
• fluster
• fog
• frustration
• fuss
• grievance
• hangup
• harassment
• head-scratching
• imbroglio
• inconvenience
• irritation
• jam
• lack of success
• letdown
• maze
• mess
• millstone
• misery
• mortification
• muddle
• mystification
• nonsuccess
• obfuscation
• oppression
• perplexity
• perturbation
• pickle
• pinch
• predicament
• pressure
• puzzle
• puzzlement
• quandary
• ramification
• regret
• responsibility
• scrape
• setback
• stew
• strain
• strait
• stress
• strife
• struggle
• stupefaction
• stupor
• surprise
• tangle
• the knocks
• to-do
• trouble
• turmoil
• unfulfillment
• upset
• vicissitude
• weight
• whirl
• worry

bafflements

• abashments
• agitations
• bamboozlements
• befuddlements
• bemusements
• bewilderments
• bothers
• chagrins
• commotions
• confusions
• discombobulations
• discomfitures
• discomforts
• disconcertments
• dismays
• disquiets
• distractions
• distresses
• disturbances
• dithers
• embarrassments
• flurries
• flusters
• fogs
• fusses
• head-scratchings
• mazes
• mortifications
• muddles
• mystifications
• perplexities
• perturbations
• puzzlements
• stews
• tangles
• turmoils
• upsets
• whirls

jive

• BS
• Charleston
• Dixieland
• Janus-faced
• Pecksniffian
• absurdity
• act
• adulation
• advertise
• affect
• affected
• aggrandize
• alibi
• allege
• allusion
• amuse
• annoy
• answer
• apologetics
• apologia
• apologizing
• apology
• applause
• applesauce
• approbation
• argot
• argument
• artfulness
• artifact
• artifice
• artificial
• assume
• assumed
• attract attention
• babble
• backhanded
• badger
• badinage
• bait
• balderdash
• baloney
• bamboozle
• bamboozlement
• bananas
• banter
• be at
• be deceitful
• be hypocritical
• be noncommittal
• beat around the bush
• bebop
• bedevil
• beg the question
• beguile
• beleaguer
• belie
• bend
• betray
• bias
• bilk
• bill of goods
• blandishment
• blarney
• blather
• blow
• blow hot and cold
• blow smoke
• blues
• bluff
• bluster
• boast
• bogus
• bombast
• bon mot
• boogie
• boogie down
• boogie-woogie
• boondoggle
• bootlicking
• bop
• bother
• buckle
• bull
• bully
• bunco
• bunk
• bunkum
• bunny hop
• bureaucratese
• burlesque
• burn
• buzz
• caboodle
• cajolery
• campy
• cant
• canting
• caricature
• caricaturize
• cartoon
• catch
• cavil
• chaff
• chat
• chatter
• chatty
• cheat
• chicane
• chicanery
• chitchat
• chouse
• circumvent
• circumvention
• claim
• claim falsely
• claptrap
• cleanup
• clip
• cloud the issue
• cock-a-doodle-doo
• coin
• colloquial
• colloquialism
• colloquy
• coloring
• come-off
• commendation
• comment
• common
• communication
• communion
• computerese
• con
• con game
• concoct
• concoction
• confab
• confabulation
• conference
• confidence game
• conga
• congratulate oneself
• consultation
• contortion
• contrive
• contrived
• conversation
• conversational
• converse
• cop a plea
• cop out
• cop-out
• counterfeit
• cover
• cover story
• cover up
• cover-up
• coverup
• cozen
• cozening
• crack
• crack wise
• craft
• craftiness
• crap
• craziness
• create fiction
• crock
• crookedness
• crow
• cry
• cunning
• cut a rug
• cyberspeak
• debate
• deceit
• deceitful
• deceive
• deception
• decoy
• defense
• deflate
• defraud
• delude
• demotic
• deride
• device
• devil
• devious
• devise
• dialect
• dialectal
• diddle
• dirty dealing
• dirty pool
• dirty trick
• dirty work
• disco
• discussion
• disguise
• dishonest
• dishonesty
• disinform
• dissemblance
• dissemble
• dissimulate
• dissimulation
• distort
• disturb
• ditch
• divert
• do
• do a number on
• do number on
• do out of
• dodge
• dodging
• dog
• double
• double-cross
• double-deal
• double-dealing
• double-faced
• double-talk
• drivel
• duck
• dupe
• duplicity
• educationese
• elaborate explanation
• elude
• elusion
• embezzle
• empty
• empty talk
• encomium
• entertain
• equivocate
• equivocating
• equivocation
• escape
• eschew
• eschewal
• eulogy
• evade
• evading
• evasion
• evasiveness
• everyday
• exaggerate
• exaggeration
• exchange
• exculpation
• excuse
• excusing
• exoneration
• expedient
• explaining
• expose
• expression
• extenuation
• exult
• eyewash
• fable
• fabricate
• facade
• facetious
• facile
• fairy story
• fake
• fake out
• fakery
• fallacy
• false
• false front
• falsehood
• falsify
• fancy footwork
• farce
• fast one
• fast shuffle
• fatuity
• fawning
• feign
• feigned
• feint
• fence
• fib
• fiction
• figment
• fish
• fish story
• fix
• flapdoodle
• flatter oneself
• flattering
• flaunt
• fleece
• fleer
• flightiness
• flimflam
• flip-flop
• flourish
• flout
• flummery
• foil
• folly
• fool
• foolery
• foolishness
• foot it
• forced
• forge
• forgery
• form
• foul play
• fox
• foxtrot
• frame
• fraud
• frolic
• fudge
• fudging
• fugiviteness
• fugivity
• fulsomeness
• fun
• funny
• fusion jazz
• futile talk
• gab
• gag
• gallantry
• gambol
• game
• garbage
• garble
• gasconade
• get down
• gibberish
• gibe
• giddiness
• gimmick
• gird
• give a good account of oneself
• give a hard time
• give the runaround
• glib
• gloat
• glory
• gnaw
• goad
• gobbledygook
• goof on
• gossip
• governmentese
• grandstand
• grapevine
• grounds
• gull
• hanky-panky
• harass
• harry
• haze
• hearing
• hearsay
• hector
• hedge
• hem and haw
• hint
• hoax
• hoaxing
• hocus-pocus
• hogwash
• hokum
• hollow
• hollow words
• honeyed words
• hoodwink
• hooey
• hop
• horse around
• hot air
• hot jazz
• hot-dog
• hug oneself
• humbug
• humiliate
• hustle
• hypocrisy
• hypocritical
• hypocritical respect
• hypocriticalness
• idiocy
• idiom
• idiomatic
• idle talk
• illogicality
• illogicalness
• illude
• illusion
• imitation
• impersonate
• importune
• impose on
• impose upon
• impostor
• imposture
• improbability
• improvisational music
• imprudence
• inanity
• incongruity
• ingratiation
• innuendo
• insanity
• insincere
• insincerity
• insinuation
• intercourse
• intorsion
• invent
• invention
• irrationality
• jabber
• jape
• jargon
• jaw
• jazz
• jeer
• jest
• jibe
• jig
• jitter
• jitterbug
• jocular
• joke
• jolly
• josh
• journalese
• juggle
• juke
• jump
• justification
• kid
• kid around
• lampoon
• language
• laud
• laugh
• laugh at
• lay claim
• lay on thick
• lead on
• lead up garden path
• leap
• left-handed
• let on
• lie
• line
• lingo
• lip
• lip devotion
• lip homage
• lip praise
• lip reverence
• lip worship
• localism
• ludicrousness
• madness
• make a fool of
• make a game of
• make a laughingstock
• make believe
• make fun of
• make like
• make merry
• make out
• make up
• makeshift
• malarkey
• malconformation
• malformation
• malinger
• masquerade
• mealy
• mealymouthed
• meaningless
• mechanical
• milk
• mimic
• mince words
• misguide
• misinterpretation
• mislead
• misrepresent
• misrepresentation
• misshape
• misspeak
• misstatement
• misuse
• mitigation
• mock
• mockery
• monologue
• mousetrap
• mouth
• mouth honor
• mouthing
• mumbo jumbo
• mush
• mutilation
• myth
• needle
• noise
• nonsense
• nudge
• number
• obliqueness
• obsequiousness
• observation
• off-time
• one-liner
• one-step
• opus
• outfox
• outwit
• palaver
• palter
• pan
• parlance
• parley
• parody
• parry
• pass off
• pass oneself off as
• pass the buck
• pat oneself on the back
• patois
• patter
• persiflage
• perversion
• pester
• pharisaical
• pharisaism
• phoney
• phoney-baloney
• phoniness
• phony
• phony up
• phony-baloney
• pick on
• pidgin
• piffle
• pilfer
• pillow talk
• pious
• pitch
• plague
• plant
• plaudits
• play
• play a trick on
• play for a fool
• play the clown
• play trick on
• play tricks
• play-act
• plea
• pleasantry
• poke fun
• poke fun at
• pooh-pooh
• poppycock
• popular
• prank
• prate
• prattle
• preen
• pretend
• pretended
• pretense
• pretext
• pretty speech
• prevaricate
• prevarication
• profess
• promenade
• promote
• prose
• provincialism
• psych
• psych out
• puff
• puffery
• pull fast one
• pull wool over
• purport
• pussyfoot
• put down
• put on
• put one over on
• put up a front
• put-on
• questioning
• quibble
• quip
• quiz
• racket
• rag
• ragtime
• rail at
• raillery
• rally
• ranting
• rashness
• rationalization
• razz
• regionalism
• regrets
• rejoinder
• remark
• repartee
• reply
• report
• response
• retort
• return
• revel
• rhumba
• rib
• rib-tickler
• ride
• ridicule
• ridiculousness
• rigmarole
• rip off
• ripoff
• roast
• rob
• rodomontade
• rook
• rot
• routine
• rubbish
• rumble
• rumor
• run around
• run down
• runaround
• ruse
• sales talk
• sally
• samba
• sanctimonious
• satirize
• scam
• scoff
• scorn
• scout
• scrawl
• scribble
• scuttlebutt
• self-righteous
• sell
• sellout
• semblance
• send up
• senselessness
• set up
• shady deal
• shaft
• sham
• sharp practice
• shell game
• shift
• shilly-shally
• shirking
• shoot
• shop
• shoptalk
• shovel
• show off
• show up
• showboat
• shuck
• shuffle
• shuffling
• shunning
• sidestep
• silliness
• simon-pure
• simulate
• simulated
• sit on the fence
• slam
• slang
• slanguage
• slant
• sling
• small talk
• smoke
• smooth talk
• snap
• snare
• sneer
• snow
• snow job
• soft soap
• soft words
• soft-soap
• song
• song and dance
• sophism
• sophistry
• sound
• sound off
• speak with forked tongue
• speech
• spiel
• spin
• spoof
• sport
• stab in the back
• stall
• step
• stick
• sting
• stonewall
• stopgap
• story
• strained
• stratagem
• street
• stretch the truth
• string along
• stroking
• strut
• stultiloquence
• stunt
• stupidity
• substitute
• subterfuge
• suck in
• sucker
• sucker into
• superficial
• swagger
• sweet-talk
• swindle
• swing
• swipe at
• sycophancy
• take
• take for a ride
• take in
• take off
• take the mickey out of
• take to the cleaners
• takeoff
• talk
• talk big
• talkfest
• tall story
• tango
• tantalize
• tap
• taunt
• tease
• technobabble
• tell a little white lie
• tell white lie
• temporize
• tergiversate
• tergiverse
• terminology
• the business
• thoughtlessness
• toadyism
• token agreement
• tokenism
• tomfoolery
• tongue-in-cheek
• torment
• torture
• trap
• trash
• travesty
• treachery
• tribute
• trick
• trickery
• trickiness
• trifle
• trip the light fantastic
• tripe
• triumph
• truckling
• trump up
• twaddle
• twist
• twistedness
• twit
• two-faced
• two-step
• unctuous
• unctuousness
• unmask
• unnatural
• unreasonableness
• untruth
• untruthful
• useless words
• vapor
• vaunt
• ventilation
• vernacular
• vernacularism
• vex
• victimize
• vindication
• visit
• vocabulary
• waffle
• waltz
• warp
• weasel
• whitewash
• why and wherefore
• wile
• wiliness
• wisecrack
• witticism
• work
• worry
• wrinkle
• wrong
• yak
• yarn
• yuck
• yuk

tangle

• abashment
• agitation
• bafflement
• bag
• bamboozlement
• befuddlement
• bemusement
• bewilderedness
• bewilderment
• birdlime
• bother
• braid
• capture
• catch
• catch up
• chagrin
• coil
• collar
• commotion
• complication
• confuse
• confusedness
• confusion
• derange
• discombobulation
• discomfiture
• discomfort
• discompose
• disconcertment
• dismay
• disorganize
• disquiet
• distraction
• distress
• disturbance
• dither
• drag into
• embarrassment
• embroil
• enlace
• enmesh
• ensnare
• ensnarl
• entangle
• entanglement
• entoil
• entrap
• entwine
• entwist
• flurry
• fluster
• fog
• foul up
• fuss
• hamper
• head-scratching
• immesh
• implicate
• interlace
• interlock
• intertwine
• intertwist
• interweave
• involve
• inweave
• jam
• jumble
• jungle
• kink
• knot
• labyrinth
• make a party to
• mass
• mat
• maze
• mesh
• mess
• mess up
• mire
• mix up
• morass
• mortification
• muck up
• muddle
• mystification
• net
• obstruct
• perplex
• perplexity
• perturbation
• plait
• puzzlement
• ravel
• rummage
• scrabble
• scramble
• skein
• snag
• snare
• snarl
• stew
• tie up
• trap
• turmoil
• twine
• twist
• unbalance
• upset
• weave
• web
• whirl
• wind
• wreathe
• writhe

tangles

• abashments
• agitations
• bafflements
• bags
• bamboozlements
• befuddlements
• bemusements
• bewilderments
• birdlimes
• bothers
• braids
• captures
• catches up
• chagrins
• collars
• commotions
• confusions
• discombobulations
• discomfitures
• discomforts
• disconcertments
• dismays
• disquiets
• distractions
• distresses
• disturbances
• dithers
• embarrassments
• embroils
• enlaces
• enmeshes
• ensnares
• ensnarls
• entangles
• entoils
• entraps
• entwines
• entwists
• flurries
• flusters
• fogs
• fusses
• head-scratchings
• immeshes
• implicates
• interlaces
• intertwines
• intertwists
• interweaves
• involves
• inweaves
• jumbles
• knots
• mazes
• meshes
• mires
• mortifications
• muddles
• mystifications
• nets
• perplexities
• perturbations
• plaits
• puzzlements
• scrabbles
• scrambles
• snares
• snarls
• stews
• traps
• turmoils
• twines
• upsets
• weaves
• whirls
• winds
• wreathes
• writhes

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