hoodwink

It soon became apparent that my name and image were being used by scammers to try to hoodwink people out of money.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

The prosecution has said Wirecard's management invented vast sums of phantom revenue to hoodwink investors and creditors.

From Reuters ● Dec. 6, 2022

"These defendants schemed to create a high-pressure, fraudulent marketing campaign to hoodwink investors into believing that their bogus real estate venture generated substantial profits," said U.S.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2022

Optimism, of course, must remain guarded here — and not just because the Mariners regularly hoodwink their fans into thinking that playoff drought is going to end.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

Country people we may be, but by golly yokels that you can hoodwink we are jolly well not!'”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Alex is so attuned to the “textures and habits” of the elite, so sure she can pull one over on them that she of course hoodwinks herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023

Jackman plays Harold Hill, the con man who hoodwinks the good citizens of River City, Iowa, into believing that he can transform their untrained youngsters into a professional-grade marching band.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022

He's charismatic and persuasive, and he somehow hoodwinks a class just as impressionable as he.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2012

Or perhaps Facebook is betting we're too lazy and ignorant to read the fine print, just like wireless carriers who try to dazzle us with their sleight-of-plan hoodwinks.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2012

A false message carried by an American courier hoodwinks the British.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

As it turns out, I’m hardly the only person to have felt hoodwinked, bamboozled, and/or flat-out deceived by my smartphone’s forecasts in 2026.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

The suit claims Banks was prepared for a fair comeuppance, but ultimately the former supermodel felt hoodwinked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Later in the night, Carr scooped up the memorable moments award for the scene in which he hoodwinked his fellow finalists into believing he was a faithful.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Let him know that there’s a chance this is a romance scam/honey trap and that even the smartest people get hoodwinked by nefarious characters who take advantage of their loneliness.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

“You think he is mistaken? Or that I have somehow hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

It is digital trickery, hoodwinking the brain into seeing something that isn't really there.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023

Their story was that the CHP insisted on the nighttime move for the public’s safety, but on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and in Times letters to the editor, the muttering was about hoodwinking and betrayal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

What is it about scams and hoodwinking that appeals to us in a visceral way that we want to read these stories, and we want to explore them?

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023

At one point he sent for me, and I found him on his cellphone with someone on the crew, proposing a plot that, I soon gathered, involved hoodwinking Gilligan.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

But Seabiscuit could not be coaxed into showing any speed at all, and to find out if the horse was hoodwinking him, Fitzsimmons opted to make an exception to his nowhip rule.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand