hoodwink

Object

• public: They didn't muck about nor did they try to hoodwink the public.
• people: He added: " I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids.
• worker: To put it in simpler language, we do not hoodwink the workers.
• somebody: As any con-man knows, the easiest way to hoodwink your mark is to let him think he's hoodwinking somebody else.
• medium: Magician James Randi had coached the young man and, with a little preparation, managed to totally hoodwink the Australian media.

Modifying Another Word

• again: She should not be hoodwinked again by those who insist that there can be no alternative to the NHS.
• not: To put it in simpler language, we do not hoodwink the workers.
• often: Beside not giving a hoot about the story, the disinterested observer is often hoodwinked and subject to public-relations manipulations.