What's the difference between beguile and hoodwink?
Beguile
Definition:
(v. t.) To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
(v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.
(v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is fond of recalling what the late Labour leader John Smith told him the last time he appeared on his show - "You have a way of asking beguiling questions with potentially lethal consequences."
(2) Ancient towns and wooded hillsides looked gorgeous reflected in the blue water, but we were beguiled just as much by the people.
(3) Shotton's Agent Provocateur story is a beguiling one.
(4) In his speech, watched by grandees such as the former party leader Lord Ashdown, who was Clegg’s original mentor, he said: “It is clear that in constituency after constituency north of the border, the beguiling appeal of Scottish nationalism has swept all before it, and south of the border a fear of what that means for the United Kingdom has strengthened English conservatism too.
(5) Situated on the road to Nazareth amid the beguiling beauty of the hills of northern Israel, the town is home to the family of Tomer Hemed, Brighton’s principal striker and a big threat to Boro’s dreams.
(6) The downside of this approach is the abiding and beguiling folly – so topical in the centenary year of the first world war – of thinking there is an off-the-peg solution from yesterday sitting on a shelf somewhere that can deal with the instabilities of today and tomorrow.
(7) But for those after something more off-track, or who balk at the $750 gorilla-tracking permit fee, the chimpanzees of Nyungwe are a beguiling alternative.
(8) More shocking still was the sight of an entire industry systematically pulling young people into their glittering and beguiling world – with little care for the collateral damage.
(9) "He was a children's entertainer and they were beguiled by his singing and painting.
(10) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian With the beguiling hand of an architectural alchemist, Wilson has sliced a great circle out of a concrete facade in Liverpool and set it spinning.
(11) Others think their one-time champion Hague has been beguiled by Europeanist mandarins at the Foreign Office.
(12) United, however, have rarely impressed this season, with their failings illuminated by the contrast with a beguiling Arsenal.
(13) In the months since their formation, the eight members of Pussy Riot have perfected their own form of protest: their songs are pithy, angry missives, largely directed at Putin, and they remain beguilingly anonymous – the band wear neon balaclavas to conceal their identities and perform flash gigs in unexpected places: on public transport, for example, and, once, on a prison roof.
(14) This chunky combination of adventure game and Lego construction set has beguiled players for over two years, without a multimillion-dollar development budget, or blanket advertising.
(15) Nancy's novels and Jessica's memoirs offered a beguiling - and friends thought - inaccurate picture of the extraordinary life lived out chez Mitford under the irascible gaze of Lord Redesdale ("Uncle Matthew" in Love in a Cold Climate), celebrated for his dislike of foreigners and his daughters' friends, disparaged collectively as "sewers".
(16) One reason why the arguments for Brexit are so beguiling is because it’s easy to imagine an alternative world where some of the current laws of economics or politics don’t apply.
(17) While regulators chisel inconsequentially at the beguiling monoliths of private power that configure today’s information flows and dams, we the citizens have been reduced to raw material – sourced, bartered and mined in a curiously fabricated “privatised commons” of data and surveillance.
(18) Those new to Paper were beguiled, wondering what the queen of reality TV, gossip talkshows and social media was doing on the cover of a publication they had never heard of.
(19) In his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, the deputy prime minister said the Ukip and SNP leaders are making “seductive and beguiling” offers that are no more than a “counsel of despair”.
(20) In 2015 Labour’s Andy Burnham is offering the equally beguiling vision of “whole person care”.
Hoodwink
Definition:
(v. t.) To blind by covering the eyes.
(v. t.) To cover; to hide.
(v. t.) To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
(2) So are we then being hoodwinked into thinking if we take this pill, we can abdicate responsibility for all our health needs because we've taken a pill?"
(3) The taped conversation between the bankers tends to back up the view that Anglo Irish bankers knew €7bn would never be enough to save the bank but once they had hoodwinked the Dublin government into providing support the taxpayer would keep picking up the tab.
(4) JN: One of the things that worries me is that somehow we've allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked by the dominant narrative about this technology… JL: That's what I think.
(5) Perhaps there's some embarrassment that they were hoodwinked by a schoolboy – for the record, neither of the footballers shared anything too scandalous with Gardiner – but in fact many of us would have been guilty at some point of taking something we'd seen on social media at face value.
(6) The apparent hoodwinking of the conservationists seemed to be confirmed by the US diplomatic cable dated May 2009.
(7) His fellow opponent, Sir David Chipperfield, the leading modernist architect, had claimed local residents had been “hoodwinked” by the proposals because the original plan, which saw flats built on part of the site to Chipperfield’s designs, involved keeping the original house.
(8) The effect is to engender contempt for the heartless Nazi propaganda chief and sympathy for his hapless victims who were hoodwinked into giving their mandate to a gang of murderous thugs.
(9) The IFS said the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats were as one in trying to hoodwink voters.
(10) Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy Read more An anonymous publisher says: The article claims that academic publishers “hoodwink” authors, but there was surely nothing dishonest in the behaviour of the editor, who was open about anticipated sales figures and his targets.
(11) He set up an "alternative energy" subsidiary in 1995 but environmentalists repeatedly claimed Browne has been using "greenwash" to hoodwink the public: investing small sums in carbon-free wind and solar power while continuing to spend billions on finding and producing new sources of oil and gas.
(12) Often the court process is used as an additional threat by perpetrators, and abuse can continue when legal professionals are hoodwinked into becoming pawns in a game aimed at destroying our lives.
(13) "It is condescending and wrong to think they were hoodwinked."
(14) Also: stick to safe colours, don't be hoodwinked by the fit model (most websites tell you which size she's wearing anyway), and check the returns policy, which is almost always "within 30 days" provided the item is unworn – although you may have to pay P&P.
(15) She denied that the couple had deliberately set out to hoodwink the public, saying they did everything "to make it work".
(16) Here are a few great examples of previous pieces to inspire you: Female academics: don’t power dress, forget heels – and no flowing hair allowed Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips Academics: leave your ivory towers and pitch your work to the media Six myths about how universities spend their tuition fee income Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy One last thing We’d like all our contributors to sign up for membership of the Higher Education Network and get our weekly newsletter.
(17) Newcastle had gone a goal down at the conclusion of a move which began with David Silva's hoodwinking of Vurnon Anita and involved Aleksandar Kolarov dodging Yanga-Mbiwa and crossing low.
(18) The extent to which successive British governments set out to hoodwink parliament and the public over the decision to give the US a military base in Diego Garcia and force out the islanders is laid bare in files released on Wednesday.
(19) People outside education are being hoodwinked about the implications of the decision.
(20) Which means there are a few short hours left to crack the clues on the worldwide web and hoodwink your family, colleagues and followers.