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hoodwink
verb as in deceive
Example Sentences
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."
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".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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