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

Secretary of Agriculture and a former Minnesota wheat farmer, the Soviets will not hornswoggle U.S. grain traders again.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fellow I've been having so much fun with—the Nervy Matt that tried to hornswoggle me with my own photograph.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)