hoodwinking

Synonyms for hoodwinking

verb deceive

noun. joke

1560s, "to blindfold," from hood (n.1) + wink; figurative sense of "mislead, deceive" is c.1600. Related: Hoodwinked; hoodwinking.

I don't know what to say, your hoodwinking me like this for so long!'

But from the point of view of hoodwinking, that would be all to the good, wouldnt it?

He did, in fact, succeed in hoodwinking some rich men of Smyrna.

Cardinal Cicognara is hoodwinking the Pope and the whole city of Rome!'

A clever adventuress would have little difficulty in hoodwinking her.

That the boots at the hotel had not been hoodwinking me I felt assured in my own mind.

He had been used for a purpose, the purpose of hoodwinking and deceiving the voters.

But the old woman was painfully shrewd, and there was no hoodwinking her.

What if Don Guzman should be hoodwinking me, and that there was more behind his offer than I imagined?

But go to hoodwinking and imposing on him and instead of a lamb you'll find you've got a rattlesnake at your heels.