hornswoggle
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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
Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, hornswoggled by hand-me-down history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
“I used to believe this. Now? I am not convinced that they ever did and that news consumers like my younger self were not hornswoggled in some fashion to think that was true.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018
It would have been convenient for this story if they bought it without blinking, but I think even they knew they were being a bit hornswoggled.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014
Perhaps some elegant sidestep remains around the present sensation of being hornswoggled into a symbolic-status Hunger Games in which the scramble for cred is a top-down bloodbath of “creative destruction.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2013
"Never, by the hornswoggled whale that swallered Jonah."
From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington
As a bit of journalistic hornswoggling, the story was a trifle compared to the deftly executed creation by George Plimpton of a real phenom: Sidd Finch, a mystical, Harvard-educated pitcher with a 168 mile-per-hour fastball.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2012
His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean."
From Time Magazine Archive
One weekend, Hilda invited to Rackham, with the idea of hornswoggling them into buying the place, gouty Lord Mere de Beaurivage and Lord Hamilcar Hellup, a retired U. S. millionaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next winter again there may be hornswoggling for Hornsby.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The West is hornswoggling itself because of a passionate desire to believe the situation is radically altered," says Midge Decter, executive director of the Committee for the Free World.
From Time Magazine Archive
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