hoodwink

How To Use hoodwink In A Sentence

• I now think that 'hoodwinked' is the word for the Administration approach on WMDs. William E. Jackson Jr.: Dialogue with a Jewish Friend over Israel in Lebanon
• By 1946, Woodhouse contends, the political objectives of all factions were clear to all, and there was no basis on which to argue that EAM's supporters were 'hoodwinked'. back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
• America's most senior general was 'hoodwinked' by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Top Bush aides pushed for Guantanamo torture
• He's very easily dazzled, and we might add, hornswoggled and hoodwinked.
• When the archforger Hans van Meegeren undertook to hoodwink the experts by painting what they accepted as a theretofore unknown Vermeer, his motives were more devious than those of the ordinary counterfeiter.
• Closer inspection, however, reveals the fraud, we've been hoodwinked for the stage is not populated by New Romantics, those glamorous, angular starlets from a planet yet undiscovered but, rather, by the Eton bob-a-job week scout group. The Music Fix
• Do not now try to insult me further by attempting to hoodwink me with any further false promises.
• Such a defence is offered only to hoodwink the gullible, illiterate and ignorant millions.
• Rather than being hoodwinked, I would endure anything.
• Two Czech students hoodwinked the media and most of Prague by the look of it, make-believing that they were building a hypermarket and shopping precinct.