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UK
/hˈʊdwɪŋk/
]
[ US /ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk/ ]
[ US /ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk/ ]
VERB
- influence by slyness
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conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
How To Use hoodwink In A Sentence
- In short - we were not "hoodwinked" by Wall Street. Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: We Weren't Punked -- There is a Severe Financial Crisis
- Two, he is an unreconstructed leftie attempting to hoodwink those in favour of reform by talking their language without actually acting on it.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- I have been toppled by my own monstrous solipsism, hoodwinked by the belief that everything revolves around me. LOVE YOU MADLY
- I'm not sure "okey-doke" "bamboozle" and "hoodwink" are the hippest terms to use, but I suppose he is speaking to a diverse audience, and Clinton has been claiming the senior vote, so, sure why not. Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You