hoodwinked

[hood-wingkd]

adjective

1. deceived or tricked.

   Bankers lied to the fearful and easily hoodwinked public about the threat of our financial system collapsing.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of hoodwink.

Other Word Forms

• unhoodwinked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoodwinked¹

hoodwink ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Dr Amati worries that "people are being hoodwinked into thinking 'high protein' on a label necessarily means that it is healthy. Honestly, it's another health halo."

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At this stage of the season I can get hoodwinked a bit because I have covered some teams when they have played well, and it means I overlook some of their opposition's qualities.

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I was hoodwinked in a similar way to the British-Ghanaian teenager who recently took his parents to the High Court in London for sending him to school in Ghana.

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“Not only is it good for the economy and good for our communities, but it's much, much less likely that you're going to be hoodwinked.”

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Wolff also encouraged social critics to not be hoodwinked by "simple-minded arguments" that attempt to turn people off from all left-wing politics through generic vilification of bureaucrats.

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