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Hoodwink   /hˈʊdwˌɪŋk/   Listen
verb
Hoodwink  v. t.  
1.
To blind by covering the eyes. "We will blind and hoodwink him."
2.
To cover; to hide. (Obs.)
3.
To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. "Hoodwinked with kindness."





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"Hoodwink" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon my duties—how you must have smiled at me behind my back! Never was a man more completely and absolutely deceived. I lived with you, was always by your side, I was there professedly to study your actions and the method of them. And yet you found it a perfectly simple matter to hoodwink me ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... was still possible to deceive the king, who in the universality of his deceptive powers was so prone to delude himself, it was difficult even for so accomplished an intriguer as Mayenne to hoodwink much longer the shrewd Spaniards who were playing so ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... knitting and, leaning back, I thought over the last forty-eight hours. Here was I, Rachel Innes, spinster, a granddaughter of old John Innes of Revolutionary days, a D. A. R., a Colonial Dame, mixed up with a vulgar and revolting crime, and even attempting to hoodwink the law! Certainly I had left the straight and ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... doubt in the evidence thereof? From whence it is that they prefer their Natural Reason as a surer Teacher than that Revelation; however on some occasions they speak highly of it. And as Men of this Philosophical Genius have usually more Vertue than those who hoodwink'd follow their Leaders; or than such who look upon Vertue as no part of Religion; there will, on this account, as also for the Reputation of their uncommon Science, be probably a distinguishing esteem had of such: Whence the apparent want of deference in ...
— Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian life • Lady Damaris Masham
... none of the lavish open-handedness that made the fraternity welcome in so many ports. Every, Teach, England, and a dozen others in his place, would have thrown the commission to the winds, and sailed the seas under the red flag. Kidd's ruling idea appears to have been that he could hoodwink the world as to his doings under cover of his commission: so that when he heard of the charges against him he believed he could disarm his accusers by sheer impudence. At his trial he attempted to lay all the blame ...
— The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago • John Biddulph


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