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
Rook and bluff are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rook" instead the word "Bluff" as a verb or a noun.
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Common collocations
| someone | bluff someone | rook someone |
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Rook and Bluff. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bluff/rook
Bluff & Rook. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bluff/rook>.
Rook or Bluff. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bluff/rook.
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