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Definition of bluffing : of Bluff

Synonyms:

crowing, blustering, pontificating, parading, boasting, blowing, preening, lording, sauntering, strutting, swaggering, vaunting, bragging, gloating, flaunting, aggrandizing, prancing

defrauding, counterfeiting, imitating, forging, covering, claiming, masquerading, falsifying, posing, pretending, showing, staging, deceiving, faking, disguising, affecting, impersonating

Usage examples:

• His bluffing had failed. - "A Canadian Bankclerk", J. P. Buschlen.
• All life was a gigantic bluff, and you encouraged yourself in your bluffing by the certainty that everybody else was bluffing just as hard. - "100%: The Story of a Patriot", Upton Sinclair.
• I suspected he was bluffing; still it was possible he wasnt. - "Greener Than You Think", Ward Moore.