Synonyms of hoodwinked

hoodwinked

verb

past tense of hoodwink

as in tricked

to cause to believe what is untrue

Tom Sawyer famously hoodwinked the other boys into thinking there was nothing more enjoyable than whitewashing a fence

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricked
• deceived
• fooled
• misled
• snookered
• gulled
• duped
• conned
• suckered
• bamboozled
• hornswoggled
• deluded
• teased
• kidded
• misinformed
• buffaloed
• humbugged
• beguiled
• cheated
• bluffed
• hoaxed
• cozened
• misguided
• stung
• juggled
• snowed
• caught
• gaffed
• spoofed
• sucked in
• strung along
• burned
• had
• faked out
• had on
• gammoned
• took in
• swindled
• led one down the garden path
• pulled the wool over one's eyes
• pulled one's leg
• did a number on
• fleeced
• defrauded
• rooked
• shortchanged
• flimflammed
• stuck
• put on
• mulcted
• diddled
• hustled
• euchred
• bled
• chiseled
• skinned
• squeezed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposed
• undeceived
• revealed
• unmasked
• uncovered
• told
• debunked
• disclosed
• showed up
• divulged
• unveiled
• disillusioned
• disabused
• disenchanted
• uncloaked

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hoodwinked

Headline-grabbing cases of apparent fraud at companies like Carriox (which allegedly misled its private-credit lenders) and auto lender Tricolor (where banks got hoodwinked) show there’s plenty of blame to go around. —Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Mar. 2026

Public health often responds that MAHA supporters like Elizabeth, Melinda, and Nancy have been hoodwinked by social media influencers, grifters, and anti-vaccine zealots. —Tom W. Johnson, STAT, 26 Jan. 2026

Invited to provide his thoughts on this, Arbeloa stressed he won’t be hoodwinked. —Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026

Reps for Young and Baez declined to comment, much like reps for Bob Dylan, Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen, and others who have passed on making statements about AI imagery that’s hoodwinked whatever percentage of their fan bases. —David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025

Slow Horses is a twisty show, but the assumption that Roddy had been hoodwinked by a glamorous woman far out of his league seemed about as safe a bet as possible. —Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025

However, for your sign, money and possessions are where you might be hoodwinked or not realize what’s going on. —Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025

Approved by voters hoodwinked by false cost estimates, the project was supposed to be operable by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. —Editorial, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025

Audiences bemused, delighted, hoodwinked theatrically, hoodwinked for real. —Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025