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
Spoof is a synonym for bluff. In some cases you can use "Spoof" instead the word "Bluff" as a verb or a noun.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| clear | clear bluff | clear spoof |
| similar | similar bluff | similar spoof |
| complete | complete bluff | complete spoof |
| certain | certain bluff | certain spoof |
| Other adjectives: obvious, subtle, clever, deliberate, disguised, double, intentional, giant. | ||
Common collocations
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Spoof and Bluff. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bluff/spoof
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