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bluffadjective being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or mannerhe's a bluff but good-hearted teacher abrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), crusty, curt, downright, short, short-spoken, snippy, unceremonious gruff, rough, snappishcandid, direct, forthright, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, point-blank, straightforward, straight-outartless, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, rude, tactless, undiplomaticbrief, closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, terse, tight-lippedearnest, honest, sincerecoarse, crass, crude, low, uncouth, vulgar circuitous, mealymouthed civil, considerate, courteous, diplomatic, gracious, polite, politic, smooth, suave, tactfulloquacious, talkative, volublelong-winded, prolix, verbosecourtly, cultivated, gallant, genteel, polished, refined a steep wall of rock, earth, or icefossils embedded in a stone bluff that date from the Jurassic period barranca(also barranco), cliff, crag, escarpment, palisade, precipice, scar, scarp butte, cuesta, hogback, torbulwark, embankmentdeclivity, drop-off, pitch to cause to believe what is untrueI bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau bamboozle, beguile, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on(chiefly British), hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick kid, put on, teasebleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle do a number on, lead one down the garden path(also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes undeceive debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmaskdisclose, divulge, tell, unveildisabuse, disenchant, disillusion to present a false appearance ofthe basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead act, affect, assume, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pass (for), pretend, profess, put on, sham, simulate dissimulate, impersonate, let on, masquerade, play, playact, poseforge, imitatecamouflage, conceal, disguise, maskfeintmalinger make believe adj.bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, crusty, gruff mean abrupt and unceremonious in speech and manner.bluff connotes good-natured outspokenness and unconventionality.a bluff manner blunt suggests directness of expression in disregard of others' feelings.a blunt appraisal brusque applies to a sharpness or ungraciousness.a brusque response curt implies disconcerting shortness or rude conciseness.a curt command crusty suggests a harsh or surly manner sometimes concealing an inner kindliness.a crusty exterior gruff suggests a hoarse or husky speech which may imply bad temper but more often implies embarrassment or shyness.puts on a gruff pose in 1627 |