hoodwinking

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

Children rarely deceive themselves, but they are expert at the game of hoodwinking and concealment.

The only inference we can quite confidently draw is that he was hoodwinking them, though nothing definite seems to have resulted.

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

There was but one more day of "home life" before resuming the hoodwinking of the mentally excited historian of Thibet.

Harding looked shrewd and businesslike; there was little possibility of hoodwinking such a man.

Did he believe in the Guiana mine, or was he, through all those strenuous years, hoodwinking the world?

Therefore, he knew that a death had taken place, and used a remarkably ingenious method of hoodwinking the authorities.

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

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