sandbagging

The word “sandbagging” has 3 syllables: sand-bag-ging

It's pronounced as /ˈsændˌbæɡɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for sandbagging?

In the thesaurus, “sandbagging” has 31 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sandbagging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sandbagging

  • badgering
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • browbeating
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • coercing
  • compelling
  • constraining
  • cowing
  • dragging
  • dragooning
  • driving
  • forcing
  • harassing
  • hectoring
  • high-pressuring
  • hounding
  • impelling
  • impressing
  • intimidating
  • making
  • menacing
  • muscling
  • obligating
  • obliging
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • shaming
  • terrorizing
  • threatening

Antonyms for sandbagging

  • allowing
  • arguing
  • convincing
  • inducing
  • letting
  • moving
  • permitting
  • persuading
  • satisfying

Meanings of sandbagging

  • verb
    1. To construct a barrier of sandbags around.
    2. To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
    3. To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage.

Example Sentences

  • The team's strategy involved subtly sandbagging their opponents in the early rounds to conserve energy for the finals.
  • His coworkers accused him of sandbagging during the project, deliberately underperforming to avoid taking on more responsibilities.
  • The athlete was warned for sandbagging in the qualifying rounds, deliberately slowing down to secure a more favorable position in the next race.
  • The company's CEO was suspected of sandbagging the financial forecast to lower expectations and surprise investors with better-than-expected results.
  • The comedian was criticized for sandbagging during his performance, delivering lackluster jokes instead of his usual wit and humor.

On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sandbagging, such as: allowing, arguing, badgering, blackjacking, blackmailing, browbeating, bulldozing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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making

  • about-facing
  • absorbing
  • accomplishing
  • accumulating
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  • acting
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  • backing
  • badgering
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  • banging
  • barring
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  • beating
  • beelining
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  • beginning
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  • bending
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • bolting
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  • bringing
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  • browbeating
  • building
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  • calculating
  • calling
  • capturing
  • carpentering
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  • drawing
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  • jerry-building
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  • knocking down
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  • knowing
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  • obligating
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  • picking up
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  • possibility
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  • practicing
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  • prefabricating
  • pressing
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  • producing
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  • pulling down
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  • raw material
  • reacquiring
  • realizing
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  • recapturing
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  • recognizing
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  • regaining
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  • remaking
  • remanufacturing
  • rendering
  • repassing
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  • ringing up
  • rivaling
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  • sanctioning
  • sandbagging
  • savvying
  • scoring
  • sealing
  • securing
  • seeing
  • seeming
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  • setting
  • setting off
  • setting out
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  • shaming
  • shaping
  • shutting
  • slamming
  • sounding
  • spawning
  • starting
  • steeking
  • steering
  • stoppering
  • striking
  • structuring
  • stuff
  • substance
  • suggesting
  • summing
  • supposing
  • surpassing
  • swerving
  • tacking
  • taking in
  • taking off
  • taking over
  • terrorizing
  • threatening
  • throwing up
  • tieing
  • timber
  • topping
  • touching
  • turning
  • turning back
  • turning out
  • twigging
  • tying
  • understanding
  • uniting
  • veering
  • visualizing
  • wheeling
  • winding up
  • winning
  • working
  • yawing
  • yielding

abusing

  • affronting
  • aspersing
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • bashing
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blackguarding
  • blaspheming
  • blasting
  • bleeding
  • brutalizing
  • bullying
  • burning
  • castigating
  • chastising
  • cheating
  • chiding
  • commercializing
  • commodifying
  • corrupting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • debasing
  • degrading
  • derogating
  • desecrating
  • disparaging
  • excoriating
  • execrating
  • exploiting
  • fleecing
  • fulminating
  • haranguing
  • harassing
  • harming
  • harrying
  • hurting
  • ill-treating
  • ill-using
  • imprecating
  • injuring
  • insult
  • insulting
  • jerking around
  • kicking around
  • lambasting
  • leveraging
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lighting into
  • maltreating
  • manhandling
  • manipulating
  • messing over
  • milking
  • misapplying
  • misemploying
  • mishandling
  • mismanaging
  • mistreating
  • misusing
  • molesting
  • oppressing
  • outraging
  • overcharging
  • persecuting
  • perverting
  • pimping
  • potshotting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • putting down
  • rebuking
  • reprimanding
  • reviling
  • sailing into
  • sandbagging
  • savaging
  • scathing
  • scolding
  • skinning
  • slamming
  • slandering
  • slurring
  • soaking
  • sticking
  • taking apart
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • trading on
  • traducing
  • trashing
  • twisting
  • tying into
  • using
  • victimizing
  • vilifying
  • violating
  • vituperating
  • walking on
  • whipping
  • working
  • wronging

maltreating

  • abusing
  • ambushing
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bashing
  • battering
  • beating
  • brutalizing
  • buffeting
  • bullying
  • burning
  • clobbering
  • drubbing
  • fighting
  • harassing
  • harming
  • hitting
  • hurting
  • ill-treating
  • ill-using
  • injuring
  • jumping
  • kicking around
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • licking
  • manhandling
  • mauling
  • messing over
  • mishandling
  • mistreating
  • misusing
  • molesting
  • oppressing
  • outraging
  • persecuting
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • roughhousing
  • sandbagging
  • slapping
  • taking apart
  • thrashing
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • victimizing
  • violating
  • wounding
  • wrestling
  • wronging

obligating

  • badgering
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • browbeating
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • coercing
  • compelling
  • constraining
  • cowing
  • dragging
  • dragooning
  • driving
  • forcing
  • harassing
  • hectoring
  • high-pressuring
  • hounding
  • impelling
  • impressing
  • intimidating
  • making
  • menacing
  • muscling
  • obliging
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • sandbagging
  • shaming
  • terrorizing
  • threatening

ill-using


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