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Word | Bluff |
very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; a bluff headland; where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise; a sheer descent of rock / frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is / Having a broad, flattened front / rough but good-natured; pretense (of strength) (n); deception (n); high cliff (n) / direct in speech or behavior but in a good-natured way. / having a very open, honest, and direct way of talking that is friendly but not always polite / to pretend that you will do something or that you know or have something in order to trick someone into doing what you want / to pretend to do or make (something), | |
Usage | ⇒ He tried to bluff people by all means to work out his plan ⇒ Claire thought Lord Byron's boast that he would swim he Hellespont was just a bluff; she was astounded when the dove from the high bluff into the waters below. ⇒ he's a bluff but good-hearted teacher ⇒ a big, bluff, hearty man ⇒ The card player was only bluffing but won anyway |
Synonyms | abrupt, brusque, blunt, fool, cliff, rude, trick, gruff, curt, deceive, mislead, rough, short, frank, direct, precipice, deception, delude, escarpment, fake, |
Antonyms | civil, reveal, circuitous, cultivated, prolix, come clean, courteous, courtly, genteel, gradual, indirect, polite, suave, urbane, accomplished, actuality, acute, announce, astute, axiom, |
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