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Hoodwink   /hˈʊdwˌɪŋk/   Listen
verb
Hoodwink  v. t.  
1.
To blind by covering the eyes. "We will blind and hoodwink him."
2.
To cover; to hide. (Obs.)
3.
To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. "Hoodwinked with kindness."





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"Hoodwink" Quotes from Famous Books



... enlisted in the cavalry. Doors and windows, desks and trunks, were found lying open everywhere at Robinson; Celestine was speedily induced to learn the business, and proved an adept. He warned her she would be suspected, but she laughed and said she knew how to hoodwink folks. They kept up their partnership at Laramie, he receiving and hiding the valuables she brought him; but he was sure the doctor had recognized him; he knew there was danger, and he was determined to slip away the first ...
— 'Laramie;' - or, The Queen of Bedlam. • Charles King
... tell you it is possible to hoodwink the insane by any specious show of argument, don't believe them; my own experience is that demented persons can be quite perversely logical when it ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey
... interrupted, raging weakly: "Oh, you rascals! My father would have known what to do with you! But don't think I can't handle it. Don't think you can hoodwink me." He punched a button ferociously; his silly face was contorted with rage and there was a certain tension on all the ...
— The Adventurer • Cyril M. Kornbluth
... the effect of the sudden and unlooked for change on certain of the customary spectators. He had swiftly ridden to the camp of the recreant Stabber and purposely demanded speech with that influential chieftain. There had been the usual attempt on part of the old men left in charge to hoodwink and to temporize, but when sharply told that Stabber, with his warriors, had been seen riding away toward Eagle Butte at three in the morning, the sages calmly confessed judgment, but declared they had ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King
... tragedy has any individual hero, that hero is Brutus rather than Caesar himself. Brutus is a man of noble character, but deficient in practical judgment and knowledge of men. With the best of motives he allows Cassius to hoodwink him and draw him into the conspiracy against Caesar. Through the same short-sighted generosity he allows his enemy Antony to address the crowd after Caesar's death, with the result that Antony rouses the people against him and ...
— An Introduction to Shakespeare • H. N. MacCracken


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