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
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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
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