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hoodwink

[hood-wingk] / ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk /


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Mr Hogg said Dunlop had the "ability to lie and hoodwink the system", adding: "It's beyond belief."

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

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

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025

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

From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022

This accusation of fakery isn’t exclusive to Sandy Hook; Jones’s modus operandi is telling supporters that one horrific event or another was merely a play put on to hoodwink the masses.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 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




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