"hoodwink" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe deceiving someone by tricking them. For example: "The conman hoodwinked his victims by promising them large returns on their investments."
Intellectual capital is also hard to pin down, since employees leave companies whenever they like, taking it all with them.Soft measures, if required by the authorities, could end up being used to hoodwink investors.
Not everyone can come up with an ideology based around self-delusion, christen it Juche, and tell people that it's about self-reliance self-reliance, that iself-reliance self-reliancedogself-reliance self-reliance
Or accepted it and sought to hoodwink the inspectors?
In particular, a section on "transfer mispricing"—trade between related parties, such as two companies in a multinational group, designed to hoodwink tax authorities or manipulate markets was removed after the OECD's tax division complained.
Though he was aware of the stratagems mountebanks used to hoodwink the gullible, Crookes was unable to retain a healthy scepticism and indeed became infatuated with Florence Cook, a teenage medium.
At least one woman died.To an extent, the act seems to reinforce the point that endless propaganda has been making: that this is an evil cult whose leaders hoodwink ordinary people into harming themselves.
The complaint also claims that Vale feigned interest in buying assets from Rio, months after the Brazilian group had begun secret negotiations with BSGR, in order to hoodwink Rio into showing it confidential information about Simandou's geology.
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Do you really believe that executives would engage in illegal backdating if they had nothing to gain Jesse FriedProfessor of lawUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeleyThe power of noneSIR – Charlemagne is right to point out that trying to "hoodwink" European voters over the constitutional treaty is disrespectful (August 11th).
SUCCESSIVE Greek governments have managed to hoodwink the European Union over the size of the country's budget deficit and its public debt by blaming their predecessors and then promising to do better.
He has spoken out strongly against the Falun Gong, condemning the strange spiritual group as a "heretical cult to hoodwink people".Strong language has often been used by the Communists against the Catholic church.
