hoodwink
verb (used with object)
to deceive or trick.
has been hoodwinking
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present perfect progressiveof hoodwink (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Powart had tricked us; not merely the workers, whom he has been hoodwinking all along, but you and me and all the rest!
From The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint
And I begin to think that that little chit of a girl has been hoodwinking me all along.
From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by Harold MacGrath
