bamboozle

verb

informal

convicts could bamboozle prison chaplains into believing that they had reformed:

trick, deceive, delude, hoodwink, mislead, take in, dupe, fool, double-cross;

cheat, defraud, swindle, outwit, outmaneuver, catch out, gull, hoax, beguile;

entrap;

informal con, bilk, diddle, rook, put one over on, pull a fast one on, pull the wool over someone's eyes, take for a ride, lead up the garden path, spoof, shaft, do, have, flimflam;

North American, informal sucker, snooker, goldbrick, give someone a bum steer;

Australian, informal pull a swifty on;

rare cozen, chicane, sell, illude.