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were hoodwinked
verb
To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
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Some teams complained that they were hoodwinked; Game Control was amused.
They were hoodwinked in the second period, which led to the Flyers' second goal.
They pointed out that most institutional investors were hoodwinked by WorldCom and Enron with deceptive accounting.
Or we were hoodwinked by the Tories (or we were Tories all along).
A spokesman for the union, Gregg Holm, said many pilots "actually think they were hoodwinked in '96".
As far back as 1824, hundreds of gullible New Yorkers were hoodwinked into believing that overdevelopment would tip Lower Manhattan into the bay.
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Are consumers being hoodwinked?
It works a treat as all and sundry are hoodwinked.
Could all of them really have been hoodwinked?
Inspectors can be hoodwinked; tests can be fooled.
We've been hoodwinked, misled and lied to.
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