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

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is an American to a foreigner, a New Englander to an American, and a Northerner to a Southerner; as a verb the word is obsolete slang meaning "to hornswoggle."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

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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

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

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

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

"Wal, I'll be hornswoggled, Billy Barnes!" was the exclamation of the stranger.

From The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest by John Henry Goldfrap

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

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

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

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