Meaning of hoodwinkery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process or act of hoodwinking; deception, trickery.
   informal, uncountable
2. An instance of hoodwinking; a deception or trick.
   countable, informal, rare

Examples

“This actress is a brilliant comedienne, a mistress of the art of insinuation, extremely skilled in the hoodwinkery of gestures of which Duse was the greatest exponent.”

“I do not level a blanket accusation of hoodwinkery and deception. I only say that there have been such cases of this in the past, and I am pleased to say that the chances of such cases happening in the future would be considerably reduced by passage of the proposed legislation and by section 212 of the bill in particular.”

“For there is no greater loss than the loss of a child—to the world's hoodwinkery. To the arms of the galaxies. To being shadowed by the hood of Nothingness.”

“The source of hoodwinkery has shifted from the all-powerful (ad agencies, governments, MTV) to the tweeting masses—and lo, charlatanism is democratized.”

“Why would Dylan tell such an outlandish lie? Why would he not? That's barely the beginning of Scorsese and Dylan's hoodwinkery: The two are like mischievous twins, playing jokes on mom. It's unusual to see Scorsese, as a filmmaker, cut up this way, and it's wonderful.”

“Post-Love Island, we have the weaponised horniness of Too Hot to Handle, the hoodwinkery of Ready to Mingle, we have a landscape where Love Is Blind is allowed to happen, and I would even argue that the ancient format of Married at First Sight had a Love Island-adjacent uplift.”

“When a conjurer truly enjoys his work, when he radiates that uncounterfeitable pleasure he derives from doing his mysterious hoodwinkeries, no audience in the world can resist him.”

“He had found the time to dip into a good many books, and proved an adept in the art of persuading people that he had plumbed the depths of his subject, whereas he had barely skimmed the surface, a hoodwinkery which for success requires a certain native coolness and poker-face skill.”

“I actually guffawed when I heard that the guy from The Apprentice was running for president. I thought the 2016 election was one of the most hilarious hoodwinkeries of all time.”

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