Hoodwink meaning

Verb: hoodwink

Pronunciation: (hûd,wingk)

Hoodwink meaning:

• Influence by slyness
• Conceal one’s true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

Synonyms: juggle, beguile, delude, bamboozle, enamor

Derived forms: hoodwinks, hoodwinking, hoodwinked

Quotations: Reese Witherspoon – 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.

Edward Goldman – I don’t want the city to be able to hoodwink people and blatantly get money they are not entitled too.

Stewart Alsop – Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.

Gene Sperling – I believe the administration may have been successful in the short term at hoodwinking the public.

John Negroponte – The warning I would like to make to the members of the august council is that the United States and the British were hoodwinked when they were told that the Iraqi people would receive them with flowers and hugs and ululations, and the children and the mothers will rejoice at the coming of the U.S. forces.

Sample sentences:

1. We were definitely hoodwinked in this case.
2. The trial court has already said it’s a good faith mistake. I think the court of appeals is not going to get involved in this. I think everybody realizes Harris County got hoodwinked as much as the defense did with Park Dietz’s testimony.
3. He hoodwinked his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well.
4. Johnny was so observant, so clear sighted, that it was impossible to hoodwink him.
5. Or you want me to wear the blinkers, the better to hoodwink your own eyes.
6. Let’s wait and see if they will be able to hoodwink us again or not. We got to be alert.
7. It is used by abolitionists to hoodwink and deceive the conscience.
8. You don’t understand that what imposes on common folk would never hoodwink an editor.
9. She set herself to think how she might hoodwink him, and in the end she deemed that it would be best for her to go to Ida and array herself in rich attire, in the hope that John might become enamored of her, and wish to embrace her.
10. I told him that what I wanted was his cob, and that it was no use his trying to hoodwink me by pretending he was one of my sort, because I knew very well that he was not; at which he shrugged again, and slowly dismounted, after offering me his money, of which I took half.