Hoodwinkery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hoodwinkery is a noun meaning (uncountable) The process or act of hoodwinking; deception, trickery.
Meaning
(uncountable) The process or act of hoodwinking; deception, trickery.
More Meanings
- (countable, rare) An instance of hoodwinking; a deception or trick.
Example Sentences
The source of hoodwinkery has shifted from the all-powerful (ad agencies, governments, MTV) to the tweeting masses—and lo, charlatanism is democratized.
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- hoodwinkeries
Related Words
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