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Meanings of hoodwink in English
To confuse completely by concealing one's true motives from, especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.
Usage of hoodwink in English
1
He has not risen early enough in the morning to hoodwink me.
2
Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell.
3
I need his evidence to hoodwink this old cask of grog, Abercromby.
4
Also, I am a man whom he could easily hoodwink and outwit.
5
Now you hoodwink Cicereau's security chief, who is apparently a blood addict.
6
If Sandy could deceive and hoodwink Levi Markham, what could others expect?
7
Does Boris Johnson believe he can hoodwink the nation on Brexit?
8
I think I could be relied upon with safety to hoodwink the authorities.
9
Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hoodwink our decent friends.
10
It was good, after all, to defeat and hoodwink the rascal.
11
Their combined mass was close enough to Spiro's own to hoodwink the scales.
12
It's not in his game to do anything but hoodwink you.
13
And great Juno laught, that Venus hath so long hoodwink'd you.
14
You may hoodwink him to-day, but to-morrow nothing can dupe him.
15
But Autosafe faces competition from some sophisticated cheats able to hoodwink the garages.
16
Could not a girl see it was a shuffle to hoodwink a greenhorn?
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