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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.
Synonyms
Examples for "snow"
Examples for "snow"
1
Traveled four miles; came to the snow; continued about four miles further.
2
Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground
3
Our teams continue to work hard to clear snow from the airfield.
4
One year the snow was five foot high right here on the-Ned?
5
Least it's too cold to snow, he comments; that's one good thing.
1
You can entangle me without fear; and I can love without hope.
2
For this reason do the Scribes and Pharisees seek to entangle him.
3
Why should she hesitate to endeavor to entangle the curate of St.
4
A genius could dance through obstacles that would hopelessly entangle ordinary men.
5
Thus it sometimes happens that men entangle themselves in their own schemes.'
1
The brilliant young English openside is never going to bamboozle Beauden Barrett twice.
2
His fast feet bamboozle defences and he should waltz right into this squad.
3
But many modern adventuresses have been able to bamboozle the mighty.
4
They bamboozle a green gosling out of his birthright on Monday; that's business.
5
It is no use, Maternus, trying to bamboozle us with your everlasting serenity.
1
The endeavor was to enmesh him in legal coils and break his spirit.
2
He knew that given rope Lionel would enmesh himself still further.
3
A couple of sheets would also not be amiss-wewill enmesh the enemy!
4
Soon, the words start to enmesh and come alive, transporting the young reader to different realities.
5
As a Soviet proxy, Cuba came to enmesh itself in my brother's administration, and his destiny.
1
And we cringe, and we crawl, and are led by the nose.
2
He had been led by the nose like a crude school-boy.
3
Don't be led by the nose by a parcel of agitators!
4
She thought all men were dumb animals to be led by the nose.
5
Now, boy, if I were you I would not be led by the nose.
1
For the sake of effect, I shall not play false with philosophy.
2
He is deeply afraid that Richard might play false with Prince Edward.
3
To release the eagle would be to play false to Shamash.
4
Those who dream they can play false with Him are mistaken.
5
She need not lie nor play false nor fool herself here.
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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