hocus's Usage Examples:

Phocus, father of Manthea who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Arctos by the god.

of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat," "to impose upon" or (according to Merriam-Webster) "to befuddle often with drugged liquor.

As the bat dizzily flies out of the window, Bugs says "hocus pocus", which turns the Count.

of fictional hocus-pocus in all this, but there"s also a shimmering mirthfulness in the writing.

Phocus, son of Aeacus and Psamathe, also possible eponym of Phocis according to a scholiast on the Iliad.

century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat," "to impose upon" or (according to Merriam-Webster) "to befuddle often with drugged liquor.

Synonyms:

skulduggery, deception, deceit, jiggery-pokery, slickness, skullduggery, misrepresentation, hanky panky, trickery,

Antonyms:

honesty, profundity, roughness, truth, understatement,