Hoodwinking the Public Sincerity or honesty is a low and very rudimentary form of virtue that is only to be found to any considerable extent among the protozoa.
Thus, if a painter has not tried hard to paint well and has tried hard to hoodwink the public, his offspring is not likely to show hereditary aptitude for painting, but is likely to have an improved power of hoodwinking the public.
I think they've been hoodwinking us about long enough!
Powart had tricked us; not merely the workers, whom he has been hoodwinking all along, but you and me and all the rest!
To make sure of hoodwinking the gossips of the town Christophe closed his letter with a few cold remarks about Braun and about Anna's illness.
But he was hoodwinking himself: he was much too alive not to be attracted and drawn onward by the sight of the most living activity of the time.
When Ulysses heard her say this, he was delighted at 281 seeing his wife trying to get presents out of the suitors, and hoodwinking them.
Not to refuse at once is to court courtship, and if she had not meant to court it she seems to have been adept enough in the art of hoodwinking men to have found some means of "bringing the matter to an end.
