hornswoggle

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 Guide is chockablock with practical pointers ranging from Tourist Tummy remedies to discreet advice on how to hornswoggle customs officials.

From Time Magazine Archive

But don't forget, boys, when you-all want me to hornswoggle Wall Street another flutter, all you-all have to do is whisper the word.

From Burning Daylight by London, Jack

I know it didn’t happen like that in “Blazing Saddles,” when the dim-bulb governor was hornswoggled into naming Cleavon Little as the new sheriff, an actor who looked more sheriff-like than anyone since Randolph Scott.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, the hosts discuss favor-mongering—and Emily gets hornswoggled in a recent tennis match!

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2019

“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

Denim for a City That Takes a Tough Hide AS the water line crept higher and higher in the bathtub, it was hard not to think I had been hornswoggled.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2010

The confession he read over twice, and then observed, characteristically, that he would be eternally—I think the word is "hornswoggled."

From The Confession by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Next winter again there may be hornswoggling for Hornsby.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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