(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.
Con
Definition:
(adv.) Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
(v. t.) To know; to understand; to acknowledge.
(v. t.) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
(v. t.) To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(2) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(3) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(4) A significant decrease in response to two mitogens (PHA, Con-A) was seen in tumor-bearing rats concomitantly with the tumor growth.
(5) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(6) The epidermal glycoproteins were probed with the lectin, concanavalin A (Con A).
(7) Furthermore, exogenous IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, interferon-gamma, or a rat Con A supernatant failed to abrogate DFMO inhibition.
(8) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(9) However, the Con A-sup stimulates synergistically M-1 cells with DF.
(10) In one series of trials, spleen cells from strains of chickens with differing levels of susceptibility to MD tumors were stimulated with graded doses of Concanavalin A (Con A) or phytohemagglutin (PHA).
(11) When spleen cells were further cultured in vitro for 5 days in the presence of Concanavalin-A stimulated rat spleen cell supernatant (Con-A factor), CD4 or CD8 positive cells were detected in the VV (IL-6) injected group, while few positive cells were detected in the control groups.
(12) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(13) The mitogenic responses to phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (Con A), but not pokeweed mitogen (PWM), were decreased significantly in cultures with isolated lymphocytes, while in whole blood cultures the responses to PHA and PWM but not to Con A were reduced.
(14) A polypeptide of about 150 kDa appeared as the main Con A binding protein.
(15) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
(16) IL-2 gene transcripts were hardly detected after Con A activation of spleen cells from LCMV-infected mice.
(17) Thirty-eight female Wistar rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: run-trained (RUN), swim-trained (SWIM) or control (CON).
(18) Lymphocyte blastogenesis in hairless descendants of Mexican hairless dogs was examined using the following mitogens: phytohemagglutinin (PHA-M), Concanavalin A (Con A), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM).
(19) Neither WGA nor concanavalin A (Con A) significantly affected basal 3H-thymidine incorporation.
(20) The increase in Con A fiber-binding seems to be specific for EGF, since it was not observed in response to insulin, prostaglandin F2alpha or a higher serum concentration, which also initiate cell devision of confluent quiescent 3T3 cells.