Synonyms of bluffed

bluffed

verb

past tense of bluff

1

as in tricked

to cause to believe what is untrue

I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricked
• fooled
• deceived
• misled
• duped
• snookered
• suckered
• teased
• conned
• hoodwinked
• kidded
• bamboozled
• buffaloed
• gulled
• deluded
• cheated
• juggled
• humbugged
• gaffed
• cozened
• hornswoggled
• misinformed
• stung
• hoaxed
• sucked in
• beguiled
• caught
• spoofed
• misguided
• strung along
• snowed
• had
• burned
• gammoned
• faked out
• had on
• took in
• pulled one's leg
• swindled
• euchred
• rooked
• pulled the wool over one's eyes
• hustled
• defrauded
• led one down the garden path
• fleeced
• did a number on
• stuck
• mulcted
• put on
• flimflammed
• shortchanged
• diddled
• squeezed
• bled
• chiseled
• skinned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undeceived
• exposed
• revealed
• uncovered
• unmasked
• told
• debunked
• disclosed
• divulged
• showed up
• unveiled
• disillusioned
• disabused
• uncloaked
• disenchanted

2

as in pretended

to present a false appearance of

the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretended
• assumed
• simulated
• acted
• affected
• feigned
• passed (for)
• dissembled
• counterfeited
• shammed
• faked
• concealed
• professed
• posed
• made believe
• forged
• put on
• played
• masqueraded
• imitated
• disguised
• impersonated
• camouflaged
• dissimulated
• masked
• let on
• playacted
• feinted
• malingered

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bluffed

Any time the Patriots succeed with a new blitz or bluffed blitz in the first quarter, offenses expect to see it again later in the game. —Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026

On the second interception, Simmons said Delaware bluffed as if an all-out blitz was coming before falling back into coverage and making the pick. —Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025