"hoodwink" in the verb sense
1. juggle, beguile, hoodwink
influence by slyness
2. bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
"He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
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