hoodwink

The prosecution has said Wirecard's management invented vast sums of phantom revenue to hoodwink investors and creditors.

From Reuters ● Dec. 6, 2022

"We are not going to hoodwink the people. We are going to be frank and present a plan to get rid of Sri Lanka's economic ills," Mr Premadasa said.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2022

Optimism, of course, must remain guarded here — and not just because the Mariners regularly hoodwink their fans into thinking that playoff drought is going to end.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

For example, they hoodwink their parents when moving out of their summer dorm room and mislead a judge in an audition.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 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

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

At least those hoodwinked folks weren’t tricked into leaving their houses for nothing.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026

What about hoodwinked for believing England had a chance of competing in Australia?

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025

“Because they hoodwinked a very powerful magical object!” said Moody.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

She said Joshua's "hoodwinking of innocent people" must "come into the light".

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

Another example of agent Scott Boras hoodwinking one of their own, they said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

What is it about scams and hoodwinking that appeals to us in a visceral way that we want to read these stories, and we want to explore them?

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 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

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