What's the difference between astonished and bluffed?
Astonished
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Astonish
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(3) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(4) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
(5) Results of venous thrombectomies are particularly astonishingly good in phlegmasia coerulea and it is therefore mandatory to transfer all fresh cases of thrombosis of the deep veins of the peelvis and lower extremities to an angiologic center in order to differentiate cases for fibrinolytic therapy, from those which require surgical intervention.
(6) FWA chairman Andy Dunn said: "Those members who have been fortunate enough to be working at a match involving Luis Suárez have witnessed an astonishing talent first-hand.
(7) Even Corbyn’s fiercest critics have to concede he has achieved something astonishing.
(8) Recently released figures from the Veterans Administration on the number of Vietnam veterans who have been granted service connection in their claims for post-traumatic stress disorder appear to be astonishingly low, given the publicity that the media and mental health professionals have placed on this diagnosis in recent years.
(9) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
(10) Over the past year, they’ve been to five continents and discovered an astonishing world of insect flavour.
(11) "The memorable 1961 British Home Championship yielded an astonishing 40 goals from six matches," writes Erik Kennedy.
(12) The complication rate was astonishingly low during IUSC: being only 4.3% (2 male patients, one with stricture of the urethra and epididymitis, one with autonomous dysreflexia with bladder overdistension).
(13) He added: “In the context of very surprising populist electoral successes in the US it would be astonishing if the BBC didn’t interview her.
(14) So how did Vanity Fair decide to illustrate this heartfelt and rather astonishing interview?
(15) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(16) At one point, Hodge said she was astonished that the secretary of state had claimed that Stephens had approved Smith's role.
(17) Individualism – the assertion of every person’s claim to maximised private freedom and the unrestrained liberty to express autonomous desires … became the leftwing watchword of the hour.” The result was an astonishing liberation: from millennia of social, gender and sexual control by powerful, mostly elderly men.
(18) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(19) The kinetic data obtained using lysine-containing model peptides as substrates indicate an astonishing similarity to mammalian lysyloxidase.
(20) "We are a struggling small business and I am astonished that banks are allowed to get away with handling their accounts in this way.
Bluffed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Bluff
Example Sentences:
(1) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(2) Has the Bank of England governor been caught bluffing on interest rates?
(3) If there is now alarm on the no side that the negative approach is not working, it was fuelled by a poll on Thursday showing that the Osborne move on currency had apparently backfired, with more Scots believing the chancellor was bluffing than thought he was telling the truth.
(4) Bankers are Putins, bullying and bluffing their way across Whitehall.
(5) A game of hardball ensued, with the BBC realising that Hunt was not bluffing when he warned, at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, that "The BBC has to live on the same planet as everyone else."
(6) In that more deferential era, Boothby bluffed his way out of it, furiously denied the allegations, and successfully sued the Sunday Mirror for £40,000.
(7) On the first option the Scottish National party says Westminster parties are bluffing when they insist that such a deal would be impossible – something they of course deny.
(8) High- and low-Machiavellian sixth graders played a bluffing game.
(9) Sturgeon said Tory ministers who believed she was bluffing were wrong.
(10) and there was a good deal of bluffing going on Chris Anyway we will be back in a couple of days once this is over Ivory Coast – Fatboy Slim Facebook Twitter Pinterest Norman Cook had No1 records with The Housemartins and Beats International before adopting the pseudonym Fatboy Slim.
(11) Angus Robertson, the party’s leader in Westminster, said: “The prime minister should know that the SNP and the Scottish government are not bluffing; we are deadly serious about protecting Scotland’s place in Europe and I would expect to hear that she is taking this seriously if making keynote speech about Brexit.
(12) There is only the whole menu, or none.” Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, insisted: “There is absolutely no bluffing from the EU side, no saying, ‘We will start in this position and then soften up.’ No, this is really and truly our position and it will not change.” He said he had “seldom witnessed … as much convergence” between EU states as he had on Brexit.
(13) Some diplomats and officials in Brussels, while dismayed by the serial negative signals from Yanukovych in recent weeks, remained nonetheless hopeful that the president was bluffing, seeking to extract better terms from the EU and could yet yield at the last minute in Vilnius, issuing a presidential pardon for Tymoshenko.
(14) Joseph Muscat, the prime minister of Malta – which takes over the EU’s rotating presidency in January, said the same: There is absolutely no bluffing from the EU side, at least in the council meetings I have attended – no one is saying: ‘We will start in this position and then we will soften up.’ No, this is really and truly our position, and it will not change.
(15) Salmond and Swinney favour a currency union and insist that George Osborne and Ed Balls are bluffing when they rule it out.
(16) All of us have been pretty clear in our approach that we want a fair deal for the UK, but that kind of fair deal can’t translate itself into a superior deal.” He added: “There is absolutely no bluffing from the EU side, at least in the council meetings I have attended, saying ‘we will start in this position and then we will soften up’.
(17) He dropped out of sixth form with a friend, Jack Foster, to promote a hip-hop club night in Norwich, then the pair "bluffed" their way into being Stryder's managers when the rapper performed there.
(18) The no side headed into spring in nervous mood as polls showed that a larger number of people agreed with Salmond’s assessment that they were bluffing.
(19) He mistakenly had one national newspaper editor down as an Arsenal fan, beginning every encounter with a long analysis of Wenger's men, with the editor in question bluffing wildly, too polite to tell the PM he'd got it wrong.)
(20) Bluffing games Cash ‘n Guns Probably the only board game that lets you point imitation firearms at your fellow players, Cash ‘n Guns places you in the role of a gangster freshly returned from a successful heist.