hoodwink
hoodwinked; hoodwinking; hoodwinks
To hoodwink someone means to trick or mislead them. Beware of fake ATMs that try to hoodwink you into giving over your bank card and your code, only to keep them both and steal all your money.
An excellent, old-fashioned word is hoodwink, and you’ll be happy you know it when you have to read Victorian novels in which characters are repeatedly hoodwinked. It is an Old English compound which meant "to blindfold" 600 years ago but quickly began to be used figuratively. Think about the expression, to pull the wool over someone's eyes, as having the same image and meaning. Has your big sister ever hoodwinked you into doing her chores for her?
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conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
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synonyms:
bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow
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type of:
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betray, deceive, lead astray
cause someone to believe an untruth
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betray, deceive, lead astray
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influence by slyness
Vocabulary lists containing hoodwink
All Beaumonts receive a unique superpower when they turn thirteen. After her father falls into a coma, Mibs Beaumont goes on a journey to save him, hoping that the superpower she'll get on her birthday will be able to wake him.
Along with the ups and downs of seventh grade, Ross Maloy must deal with a cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Eleven-year-old Griffin hatches a plan to retrieve his prized baseball card from a swindler.
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