hornswoggle

Example Sentences

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The only sensible conclusion from all of this is that the superrich will settle, plead or hornswoggle their way out of any attempt to cancel their status.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019

Music business compromise can be disheartening, but it is not without its perks: It can bolster an artist’s ego, provide financial succor, hornswoggle the masses.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017

Then you also have good reason to take in this entertaining hornswoggle of a movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2016

The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And you let 'em hornswoggle you into takin' it?" demanded the Cap'n.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman