hoodwinkery

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

hoodwinkeries plural

词源

From hoodwink (“to deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead”) + -ery.
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