Synonyms for Hoodwinking:

• adj.

  •dishonest (adjective)
  • Double dealing,
  • perfidious,
  • mendacious.

• n.

  •feint (noun)
  • dis traction,
  • makebelieve,
  • pre tensions,
  • pre text,
  • mock attacks,
  • dis tractions,
  • pre-texts,
  • hoodwinkings,
  • pre texts,
  • pre-text,
  • dis-tractions,
  • pre-tensions,
  • dis-traction.
  •fraud (noun)
  • bamboozlements,
  • duperies,
  • mis representations,
  • hocus pocus,
  • fourberies,
  • fast ones,
  • hankypanky,
  • dupings,
  • song dance,
  • barratries,
  • sharp practices,
  • mis-representation,
  • swindlings,
  • fast shuffles,
  • fraudulences,
  • mis representation,
  • mis-representations.
  •ha-ha (noun)
  • payof,
  • HAHA.

• v.

  •duping (verb)
  • misleading,
  • Tricking,
  • Duping,
  • Fooling,
  • Deceiving.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • dishonest.
  •n.
  • bon mot,
  • buffoonery,
  • chestnut,
  • chicane,
  • dupery,
  • fast one,
  • feint,
  • fraud,
  • fraudulence,
  • ha-ha,
  • Hanky Panky,
  • joke,
  • mummery,
  • repartee,
  • Barratry,
  • Buffooneries,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • Mummeries,
  • chestnuts,
  • jokes,
  • PUNS,
  • chicanes,
  • bamboozlement,
  • sharp practice,
  • fourberie,
  • mock attack,
  • shaggy-dog story,
  • fast shuffle.

Hoodwinking Sentence Examples:

• They are clever, alert men of the world, so hoodwinking them is out of the question; therefore I think my two fellow journalists have a difficult task before them.

• He cursed Stair Garland and Julian Wemyss for mixing private quarrels with so sacred a mission as that of hoodwinking his Majesty's Customs.