1. hoodwink - Noun
2. hoodwink - Verb
To blind by covering the eyes.
To cover; to hide.
To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou 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