Meanings
- uncountableThe act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
I’m beginning to think the greater the graphics and maps, the more likely the story has some degree of bamboozlery involved.
2024 December 20, Sharon Friedman, “NY Times: Interesting Map of Insurance Non-Renewals Across the Country; Thought by Them to be Due to Climate Change”, in The Smokey Wire2 more examples
Without knowledge and judgment a scientific love of truth will count for nothing; and seeing that we have deliberately taken the ill-informed and foolish into the national council, we have little right to be surprised that the art of political bamboozlery is attracting an increasing number of professors.
1866, The Electrician, volume 16, United Kingdom, page 111Now, that was a beautiful bit of bamboozlery. The Man Who Broke Britain (BBC2) was a heady concoction of fact and fiction. Real politicians assured us everything was going to be just fine while actors, playing city traders, groaned that it was hopeless, hopeless. It was part of the film's sleight of hand that the actors, who were deliberately chosen because they were not well known, looked real too.
2004 December 10, Nancy Banks-Smith, “Review: Financial crimes”, in The Guardian
Origin
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