hoodwink

Jones was livid—two weeks could allow the miscreants to hoodwink more applicants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

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

"He failed us. He failed his country. He hoodwinked us," Gyárfás Oláh, a former Orbán enthusiast and ex-local mayor, told me wearily.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Even though I could afford it and I needed the operation done, it was hard not to feel a little hoodwinked.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025

The prison service distrusted all organizations that could affect world opinion, and regarded them not as legitimate investigators to be dealt with honestly but as med-dling interlopers to be hoodwinked if possible.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

She said Joshua's "hoodwinking of innocent people" must "come into the light".

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

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

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

They did not realize or understand that he is a con man who thrives on hoodwinking and exploiting others.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2021

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