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bamboozled

/bam-boo-zuhl/US // bæmˈbu zəl //UK // (bæmˈbuːzəl) //

斑驳的,斑竹,斑鸠,斑驳

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v.有主动词 verb
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    bam·boo·zled, bam·boo·zling.

    • : to deceive or get the better of by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink: They bamboozled us into joining the club.
    • : to perplex; mystify; confound.
v.无主动词 verb
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    bam·boo·zled, bam·boo·zling.

    • : to practice trickery, deception, cozenage, or the like: He has been known to bamboozle, so I don't trust him.

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Examples

  • To me, pseudoscience is somebody who uses the words of science in a superficial way to bamboozle people who don’t understand the science, which is most of us.

  • Rather than gatekeepers, we have right-wing mob leaders out to make a buck and gain fame by bamboozling Americans.

  • Speaking of Bamboozled, every Halloween you hear a horror story of a celebrity in blackface costume.

  • Though certainly romantic on the subject, Booker has been neither corralled nor bamboozled.

  • Roseanne Barr thinks America has been “bamboozled and hoodwinked.”

  • Conservatives were “bamboozled,” says former Texas GOP Chairman Tom Pauken.

  • Here Waters had to confess herself bamboozled, and Maggie skipped off to bed with a very light heart.

  • Anthony was under his wife's thumb and Frances had been completely bamboozled by her dearest friend.

  • He asked Lydia seriously what she should recommend doing, to make good citizens out of bamboozled aliens.

  • They worked directly under his direction, put forth the musical lures and decoys and the ignorant public was easily bamboozled.

  • The land was all farmed out on shares, an' his farmers mostly bamboozled him the hull time.