Bluff
Bluff verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.
Usage example: I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau
Gull and bluff are semantically related. in deceive topic. In some cases you can use "Gull" instead a verb "Bluff".
Gull
Gull verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.
Usage example: we were gulled into believing that if we answered the e-mail, we'd somehow become millionaires, but instead we just got put on a list for junk mail
Mutual synonyms
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