Debra Granik

I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits.

American Director

Ben Goldacre

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

British Writer

Mike Bartlett

I am not entirely off grid. I send a lot of email. But the way Facebook constantly alters its privacy settings to bamboozle you into giving more away is just underhand.

David Trezeguet

Having caught up with a myth like Sivori is something I will treasure forever. I am proud. He used to entertain and bamboozle defenders with his exceptional technique.

French Athlete

Martellus Bennett

When I won the Super Bowl I thought I was going to be, like, extremely happy. But then I really just felt like, 'Well, this is it?' I felt like I got bamboozled.

American Athlete

Nasser Hussain

Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.

British Athlete

Josh Tillman

I'm not bamboozled by the fact that people are disgusted by me. I'm not my biggest fan either.

American Musician

Ilhan Omar

I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

American Politician

Bamboozle implies a cunning or sly trick, often playful or not very harmful.

Sly Trick

Preferably used in casual, conversational English rather than in formal writing or speaking.

Conversational

Bamboozle can be used humorously to describe being tricked in a light-hearted situation.

Often Humorous

Bamboozle may imply making something unnecessarily complex to confuse others.

Creating Confusion

It suggests an intention to overwhelm someone with complexity or too much information.

Intentional Overwhelm

Sometimes bamboozle can be lighthearted, not aimed at cheating but at puzzling for fun.

Not Always Negative

 alternative this is what it looks like it is a straight line and there's an infinite number of lines that go through the point and never meet the original line this is the drawing this nearly drove mathematicians bonkers because like you they're sitting there feeling bamboozled thinking how can that be

The beautiful math of...

 again and again and again. I had been duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled. But this time, the false savior was me. You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end,