Hoodwinking [verb]

Definition of Hoodwinking:

deceive

Synonyms of Hoodwinking:


Opposite/Antonyms of Hoodwinking:

Offer

Help

Give

Protect


Sentence/Example of Hoodwinking:

He did, in fact, succeed in hoodwinking some rich men of Smyrna.

He stood very quiet through bridling, hoodwinking and saddling.

You take everything at its proper worth; your clear-sightedness is extraordinary, there is no hoodwinking you.

There was but one more day of "home life" before resuming the hoodwinking of the mentally excited historian of Thibet.

The only inference we can quite confidently draw is that he was hoodwinking them, though nothing definite seems to have resulted.

Did he believe in the Guiana mine, or was he, through all those strenuous years, hoodwinking the world?

But the prisoners were not disposed to permit this deliberate hoodwinking of our protector to continue indefinitely.

If they do not mean this, they are hoodwinking workingmen and merely are seeking a change, not a reform.

But from the point of view of hoodwinking, that would be all to the good, wouldnt it?

Then he and his followers worked up what seemed to them a clever scheme for hoodwinking the colonists.