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
Thus, a Yankee is an American to a foreigner, a New Englander to an American, and a Northerner to a Southerner; as a verb the word is obsolete slang meaning "to hornswoggle."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I figure to know cattle some myself, an' I wouldn't let Kelton hornswoggle me."
From The Boss of the Lazy Y by Seltzer, Charles Alden
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