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Significados de hoodwink em inglês

To confuse completely by concealing one's true motives from, especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.

      Influence by slyness.

            Uso de hoodwink em inglês
            1
            He has not risen early enough in the morning to hoodwink me.
            Serge Panine — Volume 01
            2
            Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell.
            Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
            3
            I need his evidence to hoodwink this old cask of grog, Abercromby.
            A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
            4
            Also, I am a man whom he could easily hoodwink and outwit.
            Dead Souls
            5
            Now you hoodwink Cicereau's security chief, who is apparently a blood addict.
            Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
            6
            If Sandy could deceive and hoodwink Levi Markham, what could others expect?
            A Son of the Hills
            7
            Does Boris Johnson believe he can hoodwink the nation on Brexit?
            The Guardian
            8
            I think I could be relied upon with safety to hoodwink the authorities.
            The Rocks of Valpré
            9
            Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hoodwink our decent friends.
            A Set of Rogues / Namely Christopher Sutton, John Dawson, the Se...
            10
            It was good, after all, to defeat and hoodwink the rascal.
            The Crimson Blind
            11
            Their combined mass was close enough to Spiro's own to hoodwink the scales.
            Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
            12
            It's not in his game to do anything but hoodwink you.
            The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
            13
            And great Juno laught, that Venus hath so long hoodwink'd you.
            The Ten Pleasures of Marriage / and the Second Part, The Confess...
            14
            You may hoodwink him to-day, but to-morrow nothing can dupe him.
            The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
            15
            But Autosafe faces competition from some sophisticated cheats able to hoodwink the garages.
            Radio NZ
            16
            Could not a girl see it was a shuffle to hoodwink a greenhorn?
            The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5
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