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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bamboozle .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
Bibi's Next Move 2010
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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 Richard 2007
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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.
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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.
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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 Hadley Freeman 2011
champagnesque commented on the word bamboozled
Sorry, Chandler, you've just been BAMBOOZLED!
- Joey, Friends
November 13, 2007
sionnach commented on the word bamboozled
bamboozle: to confuse a panda by hiding its food.
November 13, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bamboozled
Champ (can I call you champ?) that's probably the only thing I ever really found funny in that show. And I really wished they made a real Bamboozled game show. :-)
November 14, 2007