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hoodwinked

/hood-wingkd/US // ˈhʊdˌwɪŋkd //

受骗上当,受骗上当受骗,被骗了,受骗

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : deceived or tricked: Bankers lied to the fearful and easily hoodwinked public about the threat of our financial system collapsing.

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Examples

  • It’s relatively easy to get hoodwinked by online pharmacies that promise quality drugs at bargain prices.

  • We are being hoodwinked by the corporate desire to make money.

  • We also wrote on Wednesday about the media being hoodwinked by Hamas.

  • Roseanne Barr thinks America has been “bamboozled and hoodwinked.”

  • It is not limited to potential historically hoodwinked foreign visitors.

  • The Burmese felt similarly hoodwinked by the solitary scholar.

  • Under this name he hoodwinked the cunning Cerizet, inducing that "man of business" to endorse some notes for him.

  • But I am not going to be hoodwinked by the thirty thousand francs to be made by spoiling good canvas.

  • How long will the medical profession continue to be hoodwinked by means of such transparent falsehoods?

  • I am no fool to be hoodwinked, especially where my little Amy is concerned.

  • Napoleon having been successfully hoodwinked, Bismarck turned to Italy.