"bamboozlery" meaning in English

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          "text": "Now, that was a beautiful bit of bamboozlery. The Man Who Broke Britain (BBC2) was a heady concoction of fact and fiction. Real politicians assured us everything was going to be just fine while actors, playing city traders, groaned that it was hopeless, hopeless. It was part of the film's sleight of hand that the actors, who were deliberately chosen because they were not well known, looked real too.",
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          "text": "I’m beginning to think the greater the graphics and maps, the more likely the story has some degree of bamboozlery involved.",
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