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How to use hoodwink in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb, noun

Hoodwink means to cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. Example: “Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.”

Examples of hoodwink by meaning

verbTo deceive using a disguise; to beguile, dupe, mislead.

  • Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.1917 September 21, “The Greek White Book”, in The Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce...
  • As his correspondence with successive aristocratic First Lords of the Admiralty reveals, he was both unctuously deferential in his dealings with his official and social superiors, and capable sometimes of hoodwinking them.2007, Linda Colley, “Out of the Caribbean”, in The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become a...
  • This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, the liurai who were sent out to get the money hoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.2013, Gordon [Patrick] Peake, “The Portuguese Monument”, in Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Brunswick...

More sentences with hoodwink

  • They’ll say anything to hoodwink voters into believing the dump isn’t inevitable, when all signs point otherwise.1992 December 22, “So much balloon juice: Hushing up dissent in the House”, in Las Vegas Review-Journal, page 8B. From the entry balloon juice
  • WILTSHIRE County Council was today accused of hoodwinking workers in the school-dinner ladies’ redundancy row.1980 June 21, Chris Hewett, “Council accused of hoodwink”, in Evening Post, number 14,843, page 1. From the entry school-dinner lady
  • The really remarkable thing about ALBION is the amazing number of people it continues to hoodwink.1971 July 1, Don Turnbull, “Ye Second Birthday Editorial”, in Albion, number 30, page 2. From the entry there's nowt so queer as folk
  • Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.1954 May, Rex Stout, “When a Man Murders”, in The American Magazine, volume 157, New York, N.Y.: Colver Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry twit
  • Every kid knows the tricks used to hoodwink parents.2021 July 9, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “The sickie may be a guilty pleasure, but sometimes you just need a duvet day”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry duvet day
  • Yes, a lot of Negroes in my time were hoodwinked.1988, Lyman T. Johnson, Wade H. Hall, The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson, page 79. From the entry unhoodwink
  • Drawing and quartering was too good for that evil little hornswoggler who had hoodwinked two deys and the entire populace of Algiers, Gimp the Greek included.1996, Stephen Marlowe, The death and life of Miguel de Cervantes: a novel, page 196. From the entry hornswoggler

Meaning of hoodwink

  1. verb To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.
  2. verb To deceive using a disguise; to beguile, dupe, mislead.
  3. verb To hide or obscure.

Full definition of hoodwink

Questions about hoodwink in a sentence

How do you use hoodwink in a sentence?
Hoodwink is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.”
What is a short sentence with hoodwink?
“Every kid knows the tricks used to hoodwink parents.”
What does hoodwink mean?
Hoodwink means to cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.

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