hoodwink

Speech parts

1. hoodwink - Noun

2. hoodwink - Verb

Meaning

To blind by covering the eyes.

To cover; to hide.

To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

snow juggle bamboozle beguile play false welsh shanghai buffalo euchre gaslight conn rook gull wile bluff
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Antonyms

publish reveal admit acknowledge assure assent
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Hypernyms

chisel betray cheat deceive rip off lead astray

Phrases with the word

to hoodwink

Examples

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. Peter Maxwell Davies

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. Samuel Butler (novelist)

On too many occasions, especially in matters concerning purported conversations and messages from gods, mystery has been employed by charlatans to hoodwink the people. Joseph Lewis

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person. Jarvis Cocker

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama. Reese Witherspoon

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back. Daniel H. Pink

Close letter words and terms

hoodoo hoodooism hoodrat hoodwinkable hoodwinker hoodwinkery