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hoodwink

[hood-wingk] / ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk /


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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

But their students also motivate them to spend their own money to buy books for them, or hoodwink privileged locals to get what their classrooms need.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2022

Country people we may be, but by golly yokels that you can hoodwink we are jolly well not!'”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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