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ごまかして

deceiving, tricking, fudging

→ ごまかす
ごまかし to deceive, to cover up, to evade + て Te-form (conjunctive form)
verb Rare #32,911
deceiving, tricking, fudging This is the te-form of ごまかす; it often links to another action or appears in patterns such as ごまかしても (“even if [someone] tries to deceive”).
JA: 彼をごまかして、先に帰った。
EN: I tricked him and went home first.
Conjugation of ごまかす
Present
ごまかす
ごまかして

ごまかしてもムダだぞ

There's no point trying to deceive me.

— ほんとうのピノッキオ (2019)

しかしお前どうしてその見張りの目をごまかして逃げられたんだ

But how did you manage to slip past that guard and escape?

— Sanjuro (1962)

夢はそこをごまかしていた。

The dream had been obscuring that part.

奴らをごまかしてやる

I'll fool them.

— ライフ・イズ・ビューティフル (1997)

ごまかして笑っていくよ

I'll laugh it off and keep going.

— Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)

トムは帳簿をごまかしていた。

Tom was falsifying the books.