What's the difference between hoodwink and swindle?
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.
Swindle
Definition:
(v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
(n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(2) One of my strongest memories of Malcolm is watching him reduce Richard Branson to tears by refusing to allow him to invest in my film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle .
(3) He sent me information about the film The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(4) But for Americans who are learning about the agreement, it is clear that the real "us against them" is not America against the more independent nations of the developing world, but TPP countries' citizens against a corporate swindle being negotiated behind their backs.
(5) As his 28-page petition seeking the Dallas injunction makes clear, even before the fevered allegations of "epic swindle" and conspiracies by the three directors and RBS, Hicks is obsessed with the $822m (£513m) valuation put on Liverpool by Forbes magazine and his belief that the club should fetch a fortune approaching that.
(6) They do the crossing of the Sahara desert, they are swindled, they are often being ransomed, it’s an incredibly violent trek to get to Libya and then cross into Europe.
(7) The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively.
(8) Either a substitution without proxy or a swindle of one spouse by the other occurs in vital areas of their relation.
(9) Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change.
(10) But those people would have no problem swearing an oath disingenuously, since they intended from the outset to swindle or bring down the institution anyway.
(11) The Texas District State Court petition accuses the chairman, Martin Broughton, appointed by the creditors Royal Bank of Scotland in April to oversee the sale of the club, and his fellow directors of acting as "pawns" of RBS to perpetrate an "epic swindle" in selling the club to NESV for less than half its supposed market value and ignoring several higher offers.
(12) They forever print tabloid tales of benefit cheats on the swindle, which is bad – I used to do it – but the reality that we lose £1bn a year on all benefit fraud combined, and £25bn on tax avoidance and evasion by big companies and the super rich is seldom reported.
(13) Cameron's role, in Putin's eyes, as modern-day useful idiot may be further enhanced by the former's cautiously oblique references to bilateral concerns including corruption, legal swindles encountered by British businesses and human rights issues.
(14) In other cases, the procedure may become a nightware coupled to a swindle, and even endanger the life of the hopeful mother-to-be.
(15) Magnitsky exposed the biggest tax swindle in Russian history, and was put to death by Russian officials for his pains.
(16) In other words, the emissions scandal is not confined to Volkswagen, to a single algorithm, or to the US: it looks, in all its clever variants, like a compound global swindle.
(17) Signatories included Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, editor of Energy and Environment, Jones's least favourite journal, and Martin Durkin, the British TV producer notorious for his programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(18) A spokesman for Guinness World Records told German paper Taz: "It seems that at the time Guinness was duped by this swindle just like the rest of the media."
(19) The Office for National Statistics report published yesterday on migration has provoked some predictable hysteria: the Sun’s headline is “Great Migrant Swindle”, while Allison Pearson in the Telegraph claims that “the gap between ONS migrant figures and the truth is as wide as the Grand Canyon”.
(20) For some reason, I can also vividly recall seeing an import single featuring Malcolm McLaren singing You Need Hands: presumably some lunatic at a continental record label had looked at the soundtrack of the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and concluded that the track with most commercial potential was the one that featured their manager tunelessly bellowing his way through the old Max Bygraves number.