hoodwink

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

At this stage of the season I can get hoodwinked a bit because I have covered some teams when they have played well, and it means I overlook some of their opposition's qualities.

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.