How could I hoodwink him?
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Hoodwink
//ˈhʊdwɪŋk//
Synonyms for "hoodwink" (69 found)
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31 translations across 15 languages.
Chinese
1 entries- 欺騙 /欺骗 verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 欺騙 /欺骗 verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Dutch
3 entries- misleiden verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- om de tuin leiden verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- voor de gek houden verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Faroese
2 entries- lumpa verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- svíkja verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Finnish
1 entries- hämätä verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
French
1 entries- avoir verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
German
4 entries- an der Nase herumführen verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- hinters Licht führen verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- täuschen verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- übers Ohr hauen verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Hungarian
2 entries- félrevezet verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- rászed verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Icelandic
2 entries- blekkja verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- draga á asnaeuyrum verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Irish
1 entries- bob a bhualadh ar verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Italian
2 entries- imbrogliare verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- ingannare verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Māori
4 entries- papahu verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- whakanewhanewha verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- whakapōhēhē verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- whakarare verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Portuguese
4 entries- blefar verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- enganar verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- iludir verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- ludibriar verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Russian
1 entries- обманывать verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Spanish
2 entries- dársela con queso verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
- engañar verb (to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Mary used her feminine wiles to hoodwink Tom into revealing state secrets.
Source: tatoeba (6282976)
As far as we are concerned we see this as a political gimmick made to hoodwink people.
Source: tatoeba (11200383)
Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hang-mans hand; as he did, whoſe friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found ſtarke dead vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination.
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