Peter Morgan

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

British Writer

Daniel H. Pink

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

American Author

Alice Roberts

The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly hoodwinked by some fairly shoddy fabrications.

English Scientist

Reese Witherspoon

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

American Actress

Matt Dillon

I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.

American Actor

Samuel Butler

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

British Poet

Peter Maxwell Davies

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

English Composer

Ben Miller

I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

English Comedian

Jarvis Cocker

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

English Musician

Used when someone is deceived intentionally, often in a crafty or sly way.

Be cautious

Carries a negative implication towards the person doing the deceiving.

Negative undertone

The deception is usually unexpected, leaving the deceived feeling betrayed.

Involves surprise

Used in older texts where physical blindfolding was common practice.

Historical context

Refers to the act of covering the eyes, not to be confused with the metaphorical sense.

Literal blinding

Understand that this physical sense is rarely used in contemporary language.

Seldom used today

 and forced medical experimentation it's the idea that agreement to join a study without understanding isn't agreement it's something that protects us from harm from hucksters from people that would try to hoodwink us into a clinical study that we don't understand or that we don't agree to and so you put

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 that agreement to join a study without understanding isn't agreement. It's something that protects us from harm, from hucksters, from people that would try to hoodwink us into a clinical study that we don't understand, or that we don't agree to.

Hoodwink