What's the difference between bluffing and bullshit?
Bluffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) 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.
Bullshit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
(2) It’s bullshit, I was on official visits, working at the US embassy.
(3) "We don't really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written ..." • Phil Jones, UAE, to Jonathan Overpeck, Arizona University, 8 February 2008 (email 3062) Jones is referring to new research by Michael Schultz of the University of Bremen – not, as many at first assumed, Michael Mann.
(4) We can’t just sit back, fold our arms and allow this bullshit to continue going on.” Nigerian historian Max Siollun believes the Biafra civil war, which left more than 1 million dead but did not directly affect some parts of the country, fostered a reluctance to document conflict.
(5) It doesn’t matter that he thinks he is.” ‘His populism is bullshit’ In a political landscape often shaped by the tweets of a twitchy-fingered president, the Democrats must find a message that resonates.
(6) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(7) As for the argument that they're being removed to protect them, that's just bullshit."
(8) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(9) It knows bullshit when it sees it, soon tires of the same old same old and hungers for something new all the time.
(10) It doesn’t just expose the unresolved issues from Ferguson or Staten Island from last year; it exposes the bullshit of how black people are still fighting for issues as basic as the right to vote .
(11) This discount factor is probably more resonant with progressive voters than conservative voters – but bear in mind the budget period has been incredibly damaging for Abbott in what I’ll crudely term the “I call bullshit” frame.
(12) That is the happeningthing, not whatever bullshit the papers tell us.
(13) The creepiest feature is a daily birthday cartoon starring some kiddywink from the viewing audience: parents upload a photo of their baby, whose head then appears on an animated body, taking part in some bullshit adventure about a missing cake.
(14) Sometimes its initiatives look to me like self-serving bullshit.
(15) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(16) But Facebook players don't put up with that bullshit."
(17) "This 10% figure is bullshit," said one camper, who did not wish to be named but said he was from Birmingham.
(18) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
(19) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
(20) December 16, 2014 Moral of the story: If it looks like bullshit, it probably is.