hoodwink

Facts are usually avoided when fiction gives us solace in our mediocrity, or when it gives us camouflage to hoodwink others.

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

I was hoodwinked in a similar way to the British-Ghanaian teenager who recently took his parents to the High Court in London for sending him to school in Ghana.

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

“Not only is it good for the economy and good for our communities, but it's much, much less likely that you're going to be hoodwinked.”