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bamboozled
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Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall out from the show's success. The film was given a limited release by New Line ...
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vb. (en-past of: bamboozle )
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Bamboozle \Bam*boo"zle\ (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"z'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bamboozled (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bamboozling (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"zl[i^]ng).] [Said to be of Gipsy origin.] To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to ...
Usage examples of bamboozled.
That the man I knew as wise should once have been so confused, so bamboozled by Cupid, so befooled by a girl, so dominated by his instructors, so wanting in self-determination, was unbearable.
His father thought he was a criminal, and Cassie had them all bamboozled.
That she, the strong-minded Amazon, the lion-hearted wielder of the sword of justice, the indomitable scorner of men should thus have been cozened, baffled, bamboozled like any groundling or village dolt was inconceivable.
In it could be found the histories of boom-and-bust economic crazes, including the Mississippi and South Sea `Bubbles' and the extravagant run on Dutch tulips, scams that bamboozled the wealthy and titled of many nations.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
The more convincingly she argues that the primeval mud-hens and she mackerel had to be anesthetized with spectacular decorations in order to "endure the caresses" of their beaux, the more she supports the thesis that men have to be decoyed and bamboozled into love today.
In its common manifestation, it is no more, at bottom, than the privilege of being bamboozled and made a mock of by the, first woman who ventures to essay the business.
Or have you bamboozled yourself into believing that Sir John will be so obliging as to put you in command of a handsome independence?
The more I think about it the greater becomes my conviction that he has abducted my innocent child, and bamboozled everyone into believing that he only did so because he thought she would be happier with her grandfather than with her aunt.
I wonder you should have let yourself be bamboozled by such a ridiculous tale, sir!
They figure they were right to support who they did, so the election must have been fixed or the public was bamboozled, or something.
Others again thought he resembled nobody, and sus pected my Lady had been bamboozled by an impostor.