hoodwink
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Jones was livid—two weeks could allow the miscreants to hoodwink more applicants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
“Listen, Max. You think I’m trying to hoodwink you, don’t you?”
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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
"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
New Yorkers still take pride in not being easily hoodwinked.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
West Indian Archie knew that some young husders rose in stature in our wodd when they somehow hoodwinked older husders, then put it on the wire for everyone to hear.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Another example of agent Scott Boras hoodwinking one of their own, they said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
It is digital trickery, hoodwinking the brain into seeing something that isn't really there.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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
First, what makes you think that Quinn—this man of certain standing, you know—wasn’t hoodwinking you, in order to get you to do exactly what you are doing?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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