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.
  •joke (noun)
  • shaggydog stories,
  • oneliner,
  • puton,
  • bons mots,
  • one liner,
  • clownings,
  • shaggydog story,
  • mis chiefs,
  • shaggy-dog stories,
  • mis chief.

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • charming,
  • delusion,
  • pretence,
  • self-deception,
  • circumvention,
  • hypocrisy,
  • dissimulation,
  • diddling,
  • spoofing,
  • con,
  • Phantasm,
  • hype,
  • Capturing,
  • blinding,
  • Inveigling,
  • entrapment,
  • Chiselling,
  • Bamboozling,
  • pretense,
  • victimization,
  • wile,
  • overreaching,
  • beguiling,
  • deceit,
  • fallacy,
  • trickery,
  • Cozening,
  • falsehood,
  • juggling,
  • bewitching,
  • mystifying,
  • dazzling,
  • vision,
  • Defrauding,
  • device,
  • snow job,
  • subterfuge,
  • Swindling,
  • Enamoring,
  • Blindfolding,
  • deception,
  • fascinating,
  • bluff,
  • guile,
  • trachoma,
  • captivating,
  • Humbugging,
  • wishful thinking,
  • betraying,
  • disappointing,
  • trick,
  • finesse,
  • blind spot,
  • wiling,
  • falseness,
  • entanglement,
  • Victimizing,
  • song and dance,
  • Fobbing,
  • trapping,
  • jape,
  • cheat,
  • enchanting,
  • Hoaxing,
  • Gulling,
  • hoax,
  • artifice,
  • flimflam,
  • glaucoma,
  • covering,
  • Snowing,
  • entrancing,
  • Conning,
  • mirage,
  • hallucination,
  • cheating,
  • chicanery,
  • darkness,
  • Circumventing,
  • Attracting,
  • Kidding,
  • facade,
  • Deluding,
  • illusion,
  • outwitting,
  • cataract,
  • ruse,
  • imposture.

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.