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pulled the wool over one's eyes

phrase , past tense of pull the wool over one's eyes

Synonyms and Antonyms of pulled the wool over one's eyes

to cause to believe what is untrue

He tried to pull the wool over my eyes with some cockamamy story about losing his phone.

Synonyms of pulled the wool over one's eyes

bamboozled, beguiled, bluffed, buffaloed, burned (or burnt), caught, conned, cozened, deceived, deluded, duped, faked out, fooled, gaffed, gammoned, gulled, had, had on [chiefly British], hoaxed, hoodwinked, hornswoggled, humbugged, juggled, misguided, misinformed, misled, snookered, snowed, spoofed, strung along, sucked in, suckered, took in, tricked

Words Related to pulled the wool over one's eyes

kidded, put on, teased

bled, cheated, chiseled (or chiselled), defrauded, diddled, euchred, fleeced, flimflammed, gypped, hustled, mulcted, rooked, shortchanged, skinned, squeezed, stuck, stung, swindled

Phrases Synonymous with pulled the wool over one's eyes

did a number on, led one down the garden path (also led one up the garden path), pulled one's leg

Near Antonyms of pulled the wool over one's eyes

debunked, exposed, revealed, showed up, uncloaked, uncovered, unmasked

disclosed, divulged, told, unveiled

disabused, disenchanted, disillusioned

Antonyms of pulled the wool over one's eyes

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