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Six example sentences with hoodwink, each labelled with its topic.
The supplier tried to hoodwink the buyer with a sample crate far better than the pallets that arrived later.
Business
Two founders hoodwinked their earliest customers into believing that a team of thirty stood behind a product built by four.
Startups
Voters do not forgive a council that hoodwinks them about the true cost of a stadium until after the vote.
Politics
Land agents hoodwinked settlers with maps of towns that existed only on paper, complete with a wharf on a dry creek.
History
The scheme hoodwinked pensioners with printed statements showing gains on money that had never been invested at all.
Finance
The film's traveling salesman hoodwinks a whole town into buying instruments for a band that will never play a note.
Movies
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