What's the difference between bamboozle and bamboozler?

Bamboozle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He, like everyone else, was bamboozled by what had happened.
  • (2) There’s a plausible view , however, that these extreme positions are not so much sincere commitments as zany weather balloons, floated to see how well they play with the public, as well as to bamboozle his Republican opponents.
  • (3) KA Lee’s Bamboozled and Genet’s The Blacks are critiques of black and white minstrel shows; they do not simply recreate them.
  • (4) The UK has bamboozling rules on residency for the super-rich – in particular its so-called "non-domicile" rules, which allow wealthy individuals to insist they are not permanently resident for tax purposes, are difficult to grasp.
  • (5) The third-seed bamboozles the German with teasing, probing groundstrokes and draws out the errors.
  • (6) During his last trip to China in 2013, the loquacious London mayor bamboozled Chinese interpreters with his use of words such as polymorphous and joked about his Bullingdon Club days to a senior Communist party leader.
  • (7) It's in this "gap" that W1A 's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
  • (8) Criminal gangs obtain an individual’s bank details by bamboozling them with a phishing email, or by purchasing them from organised crime networks.
  • (9) Sheet music for jazz and blues music was published with illustrations of characters much like those who perform in Bamboozled.
  • (10) Local governments had never dealt with this sort of development and were basically bamboozled [by developers],” Underhill says of the mall planning process.
  • (11) The Nigerian’s menace is different to Deeney’s, focused on either denying space or racing into it, and there was another appearance for the trick that bamboozled John O’Shea and nearly created a goal against Sunderland last week, with an identical outcome.
  • (12) He cites the internet as a prime source of such bamboozling.
  • (13) And it turns out that there are several sides to this complexity: for the banks and the high-frequency traders who exploit it, it's a marketing tool for bamboozling investors and a means of intimidating regulators; and for smart programmers and entrepreneurs it offers limitless opportunities to play the system.
  • (14) Andrew Tyrie, the Treasury select committee chair, has lost patience with evasive and bamboozling figures designed to mislead and wants a full document by 31 October.
  • (15) Bamboozled's props are dramatic devices intended to shock, deployed to demonstrate Lee's point that African-Americans still suffer from the weight of these stereotypes.
  • (16) Walters bamboozled Steve Cook, after he found a pocket of space on the right flank behind the Bournemouth defender, before picking out Afellay with a sideways pass.
  • (17) I had always loved writing the book: from the first furtive soundings of disaffected employees of Big Pharma in London, to forages among the industry’s white chimneys of Basel, and finally to the tribal villages of Kenya, where young mothers who could barely read were being bamboozled into signing “consent forms” that made guinea pigs of their own children.
  • (18) It is an irony that her coach Mike Holmes is a specialist throws coach – yet its mysteries still continue to bamboozle her.
  • (19) Jacob Steinberg In terms of its significance, it has to be Mahrez bamboozling the Manchester City defence with a drop of the shoulder, a swerve of the hips and a dazzling stepover before putting Leicester 2-0 up at the Etihad.
  • (20) We were all brand new comics and all very scared, but much to my own bamboozlement they laughed in all the right places.

Bamboozler


Definition:

  • (n.) A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He, like everyone else, was bamboozled by what had happened.
  • (2) There’s a plausible view , however, that these extreme positions are not so much sincere commitments as zany weather balloons, floated to see how well they play with the public, as well as to bamboozle his Republican opponents.
  • (3) KA Lee’s Bamboozled and Genet’s The Blacks are critiques of black and white minstrel shows; they do not simply recreate them.
  • (4) The UK has bamboozling rules on residency for the super-rich – in particular its so-called "non-domicile" rules, which allow wealthy individuals to insist they are not permanently resident for tax purposes, are difficult to grasp.
  • (5) The third-seed bamboozles the German with teasing, probing groundstrokes and draws out the errors.
  • (6) During his last trip to China in 2013, the loquacious London mayor bamboozled Chinese interpreters with his use of words such as polymorphous and joked about his Bullingdon Club days to a senior Communist party leader.
  • (7) It's in this "gap" that W1A 's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
  • (8) Criminal gangs obtain an individual’s bank details by bamboozling them with a phishing email, or by purchasing them from organised crime networks.
  • (9) Sheet music for jazz and blues music was published with illustrations of characters much like those who perform in Bamboozled.
  • (10) Local governments had never dealt with this sort of development and were basically bamboozled [by developers],” Underhill says of the mall planning process.
  • (11) The Nigerian’s menace is different to Deeney’s, focused on either denying space or racing into it, and there was another appearance for the trick that bamboozled John O’Shea and nearly created a goal against Sunderland last week, with an identical outcome.
  • (12) He cites the internet as a prime source of such bamboozling.
  • (13) And it turns out that there are several sides to this complexity: for the banks and the high-frequency traders who exploit it, it's a marketing tool for bamboozling investors and a means of intimidating regulators; and for smart programmers and entrepreneurs it offers limitless opportunities to play the system.
  • (14) Andrew Tyrie, the Treasury select committee chair, has lost patience with evasive and bamboozling figures designed to mislead and wants a full document by 31 October.
  • (15) Bamboozled's props are dramatic devices intended to shock, deployed to demonstrate Lee's point that African-Americans still suffer from the weight of these stereotypes.
  • (16) Walters bamboozled Steve Cook, after he found a pocket of space on the right flank behind the Bournemouth defender, before picking out Afellay with a sideways pass.
  • (17) I had always loved writing the book: from the first furtive soundings of disaffected employees of Big Pharma in London, to forages among the industry’s white chimneys of Basel, and finally to the tribal villages of Kenya, where young mothers who could barely read were being bamboozled into signing “consent forms” that made guinea pigs of their own children.
  • (18) It is an irony that her coach Mike Holmes is a specialist throws coach – yet its mysteries still continue to bamboozle her.
  • (19) Jacob Steinberg In terms of its significance, it has to be Mahrez bamboozling the Manchester City defence with a drop of the shoulder, a swerve of the hips and a dazzling stepover before putting Leicester 2-0 up at the Etihad.
  • (20) We were all brand new comics and all very scared, but much to my own bamboozlement they laughed in all the right places.

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