Synonyms of pulling the wool over one's eyes

pulling the wool over one's eyes

phrase

present participle of pull the wool over one's eyes

as in deceiving

to cause to believe what is untrue

He tried to pull the wool over my eyes with some cockamamy story about losing his phone.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceiving
• tricking
• fooling
• sucking in
• stringing along
• taking in
• having on
• doing a number on
• faking out
• gammoning
• kidding
• leading one up the garden path
• pulling one's leg
• hornswoggling
• leading one down the garden path
• teasing
• misleading
• juggling
• buffaloing
• stinging
• putting on
• duping
• snowing
• bluffing
• hoodwinking
• humbugging
• cheating
• burning
• gulling
• spoofing
• deluding
• misinforming
• suckering
• conning
• misguiding
• hoaxing
• beguiling
• gaffing
• cozening
• bamboozling
• snookering
• having
• catching
• gypping
• sticking
• flimflamming
• bleeding
• euchring
• defrauding
• swindling
• chiselling
• mulcting
• shortchanging
• fleecing
• rooking
• hustling
• chiseling
• skinning
• squeezing
• diddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• showing up
• revealing
• exposing
• uncovering
• unmasking
• disclosing
• debunking
• undeceiving
• telling
• unveiling
• divulging
• disillusioning
• uncloaking
• disabusing
• disenchanting