hoodwink in English

verb

1

deceive or trick (someone).

an attempt to hoodwink the public

synonyms: deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, inveigle, cheat, take in, hoax, mislead, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, scam, con, bamboozle, hornswoggle, fleece, do, have, sting, gyp, shaft, rip off, lead up the garden path, pull a fast one on, put one over on, take for a ride, pull the wool over someone's eyes, sucker, snooker, cozen

verb

deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, inveigle, cheat, take in, hoax, mislead, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, scam, con, bamboozle, hornswoggle, fleece, do, have, sting, gyp, shaft, rip off, lead up the garden path, pull a fast one on, put one over on, take for a ride, pull the wool over someone's eyes, sucker, snooker, cozen
snow, bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false
juggle, beguile

Use "hoodwink" in a sentence

1. He is an easy person to hoodwink.

2. He could hoodwink him all right.

3. It is difficult to hoodwink a smart lawyer.

4. Bamboozle definition is - to deceive by underhanded methods : dupe, hoodwink

5. I cannot believe that so blatant a comedy can hoodwink anybody.

6. That past wound, will momentarily remind, be not suffered again by love, do not hoodwink.

7. People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people.

8. 2 People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people.

9. What ARE the works of Bamboozlement? To “bamboozle” is to deceive, dupe, hoodwink, or fool another by underhanded methods

10. Bamboozle definition, to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They Bamboozled us into joining the club

11. Bamboozle - 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" lead by the nose , play false , pull the wool over someone's eyes , snow , hoodwink

12. Bamboozle: 1 v 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” Synonyms: hoodwink , lead by the nose , play false , pull the wool over someone's eyes , snow Type of: betray , deceive , lead astray cause someone to

13. But Samuel said, ‘What then is this Bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?’” - 1 Samuel 15:13-14 The dark humor expressed in the exchange between King Saul and the prophet Samuel in 1 Samuel 15 is a perfect example of how believers fool themselves into thinking that they can hoodwink their Heavenly Father.