hoodwink

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

It soon became apparent that my name and image were being used by scammers to try to hoodwink people out of money.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 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

“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

Let him know that there’s a chance this is a romance scam/honey trap and that even the smartest people get hoodwinked by nefarious characters who take advantage of their loneliness.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

Dr Amati worries that "people are being hoodwinked into thinking 'high protein' on a label necessarily means that it is healthy. Honestly, it's another health halo."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025

New Yorkers still take pride in not being easily hoodwinked.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

When he did show up for a contentious interview with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Chicago Economic Club, Trump complained that he was "hoodwinked to go on that."

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024

The prison service distrusted all organizations that could affect world opinion, and regarded them not as legitimate investigators to be dealt with honestly but as med-dling interlopers to be hoodwinked if possible.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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