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hoodwink
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. influence by slyness [syn: juggle , beguile ] conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well" [syn: bamboozle , snow , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoodwink \Hood"wink\ (h[oo^]d"w[i^ ng]k), v. t. [Hood + wink.] To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. --Shak. To cover; to hide. [Obs.] --Shak. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. ``Hoodwinked with kindness.'' ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hoodwink is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Claude Whatham and written by Ken Quinnell . It stars John Hargreaves and Judy Davis . The film is based on the true story of a well-publicized Australian con artist. It was nominated for eight Australian ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But don't be hoodwinked into thinking that gifts and other offerings are the way to bring lasting happiness. ▪ Could we have been hoodwinked all the way? ▪ Does anyone else around here think we were hoodwinked on this deal? ▪ ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "to blindfold," from hood (n.1) + wink ; figurative sense of "mislead, deceive" is c.1600. Related: Hoodwinked ; hoodwinking .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context archaic English) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold. 2 To deceive or trick.
Usage examples of hoodwink.
These men had cobbled together a mishmash of Plato, the Gospels, the Jewish Cabala, together with a few scraps of Egyptian philosophy, and had managed to hoodwink scholars, priests and kings for more than a thousand years.
Gentry hoodwinked a pretty little thing like you into marrying him, him being an outlaw and all.
It was not any mere sense of humiliation, due to the fact that the man whom she had thought to hoodwink had hoodwinked her, which troubled her.
I was just thinking about possible approaches, when Max barged in and started yammering about how I hoodwinked him.
But he was clever enough to have hoodwinked Dunbar, who hardly ever saw Seton, and who was overly impressed by the avalanche of correctly prepared paperwork that rolled into Baltimore every month.
Father Tim - unless he had been hoodwinked into believing her a widow.
This form of strategy hoodwinked practically everybody except David Cooper.
I did not let myself be hoodwinked by her promises, but went straight to work, being determined to have my own way.
Was it true that the police had again been hoodwinked, justice derided, and the law set at defiance by a gang of ruffians who would have been run down in a fortnight had the police force been equal to the task entrusted to them?
Even Nathan Holn, monster that he was, had told the essential truth about Ben Franklin and his constitutionalist cronies- how they had hoodwinked a people into believing such things.
Why, from the very moment an American started building his or her Miami Moorish house in the exclusive colony which the Meskins disparagingly called Disneylandia, the poor, helpless, despised retiree could expect to be gulled, bilked, hoodwinked and price-gouged by every Meskin contractor, carpenter, plumber, etc.
Then while we were expecting every moment that Laporte would order our arrest, milor assumed the personality of the monster, hoodwinked the sergeant on the dark staircase, and by that wonderfully audacious coup saved Mme.
How could Elaine hoodwink the plain-clothes man, if he came to see her and insisted on seeing Shipton in bed?
The citizens of Telos were horrified that they had been hoodwinked by greed.
He spins such a web of narrative that it is easy not to notice that Arete has been hoodwinked.