Synonyms of pulled the wool over one's eyes

pulled the wool over one's eyes

phrase

past tense of pull the wool over one's eyes

as in deceived

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 & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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