Fooling - English meaning

verb

Cheat or fool.

Usage examples:

He bamboozled canada's largest banks in a massive counterfeit scam

verb

To trick or deceive someone, often by confusing them

Usage examples:

She was bamboozled into telling them her credit card number.

verb

To trick or deceive someone, often by confusing them

Usage examples:

Don't get bamboozled by all the jargon., she was bamboozled into telling them her credit card number.

verb

Charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way.

Usage examples:

He beguiled the voters with his good looks

verb

To charm, attract, or interest, sometimes in order to deceive

Usage examples:

I had to show i was not beguiled by his good looks., a beguiling smile

verb

To persuade, attract, or interest someone, sometimes in order to deceive them

Usage examples:

He was completely beguiled by her beauty., the salesman beguiled him into buying a car he didn't wa…

noun

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something.

Usage examples:

The offer was denounced as a bluff

verb

Try to deceive someone as to one's abilities or intentions.

Usage examples:

He's been bluffing all along

adjective

Direct in speech or behaviour but in a good-natured way.

Usage examples:

A big, bluff, hearty man

verb

Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.

Usage examples:

She always cheats at cards

noun

A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.

Usage examples:

Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage.

verb

To act in a way that is dishonest, or to make someone believe something that is not true in order to get something for yourself

Usage examples:

[ t ] the insurance companies were found to be cheating consumers., [ t ] they got cheated out of t…

verb

Persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them.

Usage examples:

I conned him into giving me your home number

noun

An instance of deceiving or tricking someone.

Usage examples:

The charter is a glossy public relations con

noun

A disadvantage of or argument against something.

Usage examples:

Borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer

verb

Deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain.

Usage examples:

I didn't intend to deceive people into thinking it was french champagne

verb

To persuade someone that something false is the truth; trick or fool

Usage examples:

Some parents try to deceive school officials and enroll their children in other districts., we shou…

verb

To use dishonest or illegal methods to get something or to make people believe that something is true when it is not

Usage examples:

These were fraudulent transactions aimed at deceiving creditors and investors., intention/intent to…

verb

Illegally obtain money from (someone) by deception.

Usage examples:

He used a second identity to defraud the bank of thousands of pounds

verb

To take or keep something illegally from someone by deceiving the person

Usage examples:

She is charged with defrauding the internal revenue service.

verb

To take money or goods illegally from someone by deceiving them

Usage examples:

Defraud sb of sth an architect and two surveyors defrauded a charity trust of £3.5m by invoicing it…

verb

Make (someone) believe something that is not true.

Usage examples:

Too many theorists have deluded the public

verb

To fool yourself into believing something is true because you want it to be true, when it is actually not true

Usage examples:

He’s deluding himself if he thinks he’s going to get that promotion.

verb

To make someone believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

Delude yourself he's deluding himself if he thinks he's going to be promoted this year., she has de…

verb

To cheat or be dishonest to someone who trusted you

verb

To trick or cheat someone who trusts you, for example, a business partner

Usage examples:

After recent events in congress, both democrats and republicans felt they had been double-crossed b…

verb

Deceive; trick.

Usage examples:

The newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story

noun

A victim of deception.

Usage examples:

Men who were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders

verb

Make a duplicate or copy of.

Usage examples:

How to dupe 35 mm slides on to 35 mm film

noun

A long-winged web-footed seabird with a raucous call, typically having white plumage with a grey or black mantle.

Usage examples:

I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other spec…

verb

Fool or deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

He had been gulled into believing that the documents were authentic

noun

A person who is fooled or deceived.

Usage examples:

The title of this piece might seem to be no more than a comment on the ease with which the flats, m…

noun

A humorous or malicious deception.

Usage examples:

The evidence had been planted as part of an elaborate hoax

verb

Trick or deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax i was hoaxed myself.

noun

A plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick

Usage examples:

The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax., hoax call he'd made a hoax call claiming to be the presid…

verb

Deceive or trick.

Usage examples:

Staff were hoodwinked into thinking the cucumber was a sawn-off shotgun

verb

To deceive or trick someone

Usage examples:

We were hoodwinked into believing that we had won a lot of money.

phrase

To trick someone or make someone appear stupid in some way

Usage examples:

You made a fool of me in front of all those people!, he felt that she'd made a fool of him and he w…

verb

Cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression.

Usage examples:

Fans believed they were misled about the reasons for the cancellation

verb

To cause someone to believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

We’re not misleading people, and we’re not pretending to be something we’re not.

verb

To cause someone to believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

The government has repeatedly misled the public, and we're here to protest., mislead sb about sth t…

verb

Deceive by greater ingenuity.

Usage examples:

Ray had outwitted many an opponent

idiom

To confuse someone or cause problem for them

Usage examples:

I thought i heard something - my ears must have been playing tricks on me., fate played a cruel tri…

verb

Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions.

Usage examples:

A businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds

noun

A fraudulent scheme or action.

Usage examples:

He is mixed up in a £10 million insurance swindle

verb

To cheat or trick someone in order to get money from them

Usage examples:

Swindle sb out of sth a web-based company swindled customers out of $15 million., victims of the sw…

phrasal verb

Provide with shelter

verb

To move something or someone from one place to another

Usage examples:

Please, take me with you!, it may rain, so take your umbrella., the suitcases were taken to madrid …

verb

To subtract one number or amount from another

Usage examples:

Take sth from sth you'll need to take $2,000 from the $8,000 to allow for tax., take sth/sb off (st…

noun

A cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone.

Usage examples:

He's a double-dealer capable of any mean trick

verb

Cunningly deceive or outwit.

Usage examples:

Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards

adjective

Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion.

Usage examples:

A trick question