All bluff synonyms

verb bluff

• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• feign — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• beguile — If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• juggle — to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
• double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• put on — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• take in — the act of taking.
• illude — to deceive or trick.
• psych out — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.