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What is another word for
making a fool of
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Present participle for to cause (someone) to seem foolish through trickery or deception
Present participle for to shame or put down
Present participle for to cause (someone) to seem foolish
Present participle for to outdo or surpass
Present participle for to use skill and cunning to gain an advantage over
Present participle for to ridicule, make fun of
(
archaic
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Present participle for to feel or display contempt or disdain for
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Verb
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Present participle for to cause (someone) to seem foolish through trickery or deception
deceiving
duping
tricking
misleading
conning
fooling
beclowning
taking for a ride
making a monkey of
making a monkey out of
making somebody look an idiot
deluding
hoodwinking
hoaxing
beguiling
bamboozling
bluffing
suckering
cozening
misguiding
snookering
gaffing
misinforming
hornswoggling
gulling
snowing
having
humbugging
spoofing
burning
taking in
gammoning
buffaloing
juggling
sucking in
having on
stringing along
putting one over on
leading on
catching
faking out
cheating
swindling
defrauding
stiffing
diddling
stinging
mulcting
swizzling
ripping off
buncoing
selling a pup to
shafting
euchring
pulling a swifty on
doing
double-crossing
pulling a fast one on
bilking
finagling
inveigling
entrapping
ensnaring
seducing
rooking
taking to the cleaners
toying
trifling with
trifling
taking advantage of
playing with
dallying
wantoning
leading up the garden path
giving the runaround
kidding
playing fast and loose with
making use of
sending on a wild-goose chase
dallying with
toying with
fiddling
lulling
flimflamming
outwitting
scamming
play-acting
outfoxing
putting on
foxing
playing a trick on
juking
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
chicaning
more ❯
“You are talking great rubbish, and trying to
make a fool of
me by flattery.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to shame or put down
humbling
humiliating
shaming
degrading
demeaning
abasing
chastening
debasing
disgracing
subduing
mortifying
sinking
abashing
breaking
belittling
crushing
owning
reducing
chagrining
cheapening
discrediting
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
lowering
causing to lose face
embarrassing
shooting down
smirching
tearing down
bemeaning
deflating
discomfiting
squashing
demoting
fouling
overcoming
silencing
snubbing
squelching
upsetting
bringing down
casting down
pulling down
putting away
putting down
putting to shame
striking dumb
taking down
bringing low
cutting down to size
making eat dirt
making someone eat crow
making someone eat humble pie
popping one's balloon
putting one away
bringing down a peg
cutting to the quick
making one feel small
forcing to eat humble pie
putting someone in their place
taking down a peg or two
taking down a peg
settling someone's hash
showing up
making ashamed
quashing
downgrading
devaluing
flattening
smearing
discountenancing
panning
causing to feel small
getting the better of
taking the wind out of your sails
having the last laugh on
exposing
denigrating
ripping
slamming
withering
blistering
vanquishing
downplaying
confusing
showing in a bad light
playing down
running down
putting out of countenance
beclowning
showing in bad light
scoring off
diminishing
lowering the status of
disparaging
dehumanizing
US
dehumanising
UK
bringing shame to
cutting down
defaming
bastardizing
US
sullying
staining
stigmatizing
US
tainting
tarnishing
besmirching
profaning
lessening
slurring
besmearing
bastardising
UK
stigmatising
UK
slandering
vilifying
maligning
lowering in rank
lowering in status
calumniating
censuring
reproaching
soiling
relegating
insulting
disfavoring
disfavouring
compromising
disesteeming
bringing into disrepute
dragging through the mud
declassing
dismissing
dragging through the mire
corrupting
reflecting badly on
perverting
vitiating
undervaluing
bringing shame upon
depraving
giving a bad name
warping
putting in a bad light
casting aspersions on
bumping
reverting
depreciating
setting back
poisoning
subverting
debauching
doing a hatchet job on
busting
marking down
reducing to the ranks
kicking downstairs
detracting from
blackening
scandalizing
US
bringing into disfavour
pooh-poohing
blackening someone's name
deteriorating
prostituting
disrating
demoralizing
US
cankering
defiling
scandalising
UK
desecrating
brutalizing
US
injuring
derogating
demoralising
UK
brutalising
UK
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause (someone) to seem foolish
embarrassing
humiliating
mocking
ridiculing
making a fool out of
making a monkey of
making a monkey out of
belittling
setting up
stultifying
Verb
▲
Present participle for to outdo or surpass
scoring points off
outdoing
besting
worsting
humiliating
getting the better of
gaining an advantage over
having the edge over
getting one over on
getting one up on
having the last laugh on
beating
defeating
conquering
mastering
overcoming
subduing
licking
crushing
vanquishing
overthrowing
overpowering
subjugating
thrashing
routing
trouncing
clobbering
drubbing
outclassing
overwhelming
whipping
outsmarting
outwitting
surpassing
outstripping
murdering
demolishing
slaughtering
crucifying
hammering
skunking
killing
undoing
stuffing
overbearing
trimming
surmounting
dispatching
shellacking
stopping
upending
overmatching
getting
taking
slamming
owning
creaming
walking all over
beating hollow
winning against
blowing out
giving someone a hiding
making mincemeat of
gaining the advantage over
wiping the floor with
running rings around
getting around
doing in
taking to the cleaners
blowing out of the water
wiping out
doing down
prevailing over
triumphing over
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to use skill and cunning to gain an advantage over
outmaneuvering
US
outmanoeuvring
UK
outfoxing
tricking
outdoing
outplaying
outjockeying
outsmarting
outwitting
outthinking
circumventing
outgeneralling
outgeneraling
outflanking
getting the better of
running rings round
stealing a march on
making rings round
pulling a fast one on
putting one over on
gulling
deceiving
cheating
duping
foxing
outslicking
conning
overreaching
hoodwinking
misleading
topping
swindling
hoaxing
defrauding
bamboozling
defeating
beating
having
capping
finagling
outguessing
confusing
juking
baffling
bewildering
worsting
jipping
taking in
faking out
leading astray
figuring out
outperforming
going one better than
besting
excelling
surpassing
fooling
outshining
outclassing
bilking
stinging
rooking
beguiling
cozening
sucking in
exceeding
bettering
overtaking
bypassing
remaining ahead
staying in the lead
luring
cajoling
seducing
inveigling
wheedling
suckering
stringing along
misguiding
misinforming
stiffing
hustling
fixing
double-crossing
mousetrapping
trapping
shafting
bluffing
fleecing
deluding
diddling
ripping off
shortchanging
doing
snookering
tripping up
catching out
setting up
roping in
having on
humbugging
flamming
taking to the cleaners
hornswoggling
gaffing
mulcting
spoofing
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to ridicule, make fun of
lampooning
mocking
ridiculing
satirising
UK
satirizing
US
parodying
caricaturing
mimicking
teasing
burlesquing
ragging
travestying
roasting
japing
guying
squibbing
pasquinading
railing
making fun of
sending up
poking fun at
taking off
putting on
taking the piss out of
ribbing
kidding
joshing
jiving
bantering
deriding
taking the mickey
jeering
needling
pillorying
laughing at
holding up to ridicule
pulling one's leg
jibing at
winding up
making jokes about
making sport of
riding
taunting
hazing
panning
gibing
dissing
jibing
jeering at
sneering at
ragging on
goofing on
treating with contempt
poking mullock at
slinging off at
shooting down
making a monkey out of
scorning
chaffing
rallying
sneering
twitting
razzing
scoffing
flouting
scouting
quizzing
skewering
chiacking
humiliating
fleering
cartooning
deflating
unmasking
exposing
scoffing at
pooh-poohing
thumbing nose at
showing contempt for
making a monkey of
treating contemptuously
showing contempt
putting down
heaping scorn on
flouting at
showing up
making a laughing-stock
exposing to ridicule
poking borack
laughing out of court
railing at
holding up to shame
making someone a laughing stock
making a game of
running down
censuring
imitating
aping
spoofing
doing
disparaging
impersonating
insulting
disdaining
distorting
slighting
exaggerating
belittling
detracting
laughing
copying
perverting
tormenting
affronting
misrepresenting
girding
slamming
underrating
rotting
joking
smoking
jesting
sniffing at
ranking out
quipping at
sneezing at
dumping on
holding in contempt
giving Bronx cheer
looking down on
turning up one's nose
shamming
heckling
hooting
making a joke of
swiping
cracking
decrying
dumping
sniggering
contemning
dismissing
denigrating
sniggering at
snickering at
making fun
knocking
smiling at
louting
vilifying
playing on
making a mockery of
miming
pulling someone's chain
quipping
pranking
funning
pulling someone's leg
flipping
amusing
jollying
messing around
gagging
wisecracking
entertaining
fooling
diverting
pouring scorn on
detracting from
doing a number on
doing an impression of
doing a takeoff of
slurring
gibing at
curling your lip at
turning your nose up at
saying contemptuously
taking a swipe at
making cutting remarks about
having a crack at
more ❯
Verb
▲
(
archaic
)
Present participle for to feel or display contempt or disdain for
flouting
mocking
scorning
deriding
ridiculing
taunting
jeering
gibing
sneering
scoffing
insulting
disdaining
slighting
affronting
girding
despising
spurning
outraging
quipping
laughing at
scoffing at
sneering at
jeering at
poking fun at
gibing at
showing contempt for
thumbing nose at
taking the piss out of
treating with disdain
teasing
twitting
rallying
ragging
scouting
belittling
contemning
knocking
panning
riding
discrediting
reviling
dismissing
discounting
booing
jibing at
making fun of
pooh-poohing
poking mullock at
making sport of
taking the mickey
scouting at
fleering at
making light of
digging at
slagging off
treating contemptuously
showing contempt
dissing
offending
wounding
disrespecting
disparaging
slapping
slurring
pillorying
cutting down
ragging on
making jokes about
putting down
treating with contempt
more ❯
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