hoodwinking

Example Sentences

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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

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