hoodwinking

Example Sentences

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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

Any con man keeps a special place in his black-hole heart for people who cannot, or will not, see how he is hoodwinking them.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022

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