hoodwink
verb (used with object)
to deceive or trick.
has hoodwinked
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present perfectof hoodwink (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I'm sure wherever he is now he will think it's absolutely wonderful that he has hoodwinked everybody for 10 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2013
They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else.
From Time Magazine Archive
I offered you evidence that this jailer is a felon, who has hoodwinked the visiting justices and has deceived you.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
But the spider has hoodwinked even the wise heads in many other ways, and even to-day is an unsolved mystery to many of us.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson
Whittington is not the only one of Walpole's men who has hoodwinked us the while he filled his pockets.
From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
