hoodwink

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By any device to hoodwink, even Jonathan. "

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  1. transitive verb To take in by deceptive means; deceive. See Synonyms at deceive.
  2. transitive verb Archaic To blindfold.
  3. transitive verb Obsolete To conceal.

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  • The chiefs began to think it was useless to hoodwink or browbeat the wonderful woman who seemed to know their inmost thoughts and all their hidden plans. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
  • Spencer seeks to hoodwink his readers by talking of Jihad being war ... and that idea, rather obviously, is not accepted by scholars of Islam (Muslim and non-Muslim). —  Assyrian International News Agency
  • In fact, he seems so gosh-darn likable that Democrats have to try to hoodwink voters into thinking McCain is not McCain, but the reincarnation of George W. Bush, and the popularity of the word —  The American Spectator
  • To all of us, SL fans, he is our glittering ornaments, to others he is no more than an impostor, who had managed to hoodwink the law. —  Kottu
  • Raising the bogey of terrorism to hoodwink the blinding eyes —  Bloggers.Pakistan
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hoodwink:   hoodwinked
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from hood + wink; prob. orig. in ref. to hooding a hawk: see hood, n., 2.
  2. from hoodwink, v.
 

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/ˈhədwɪŋk/
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