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deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
How To Use hornswoggle In A Sentence
- Marty scraped by, Alina was voted out, and Jane was hornswoggled, by gum. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior citizens: Crime and Punishment.
- He's very easily dazzled, and we might add, hornswoggled and hoodwinked.
- A reader identified simply as, ‘Vincenzo,’ amplifies Christian's description of the previous time that this same program was hornswoggled by the very same trick.
- With an approval rating that is historically low, it will not take much for people to be convinced that the book is true and that Bush has allowed himself to be hornswoggled by the biggest group of corrupt ideological bankrupt buffoons to ever advise a president. Blitzer: Most explosive charges I can remember
- Was he really trying to hornswoggle the troops and the American people?
- The oligarchs running the bogus Education Equality Project paid for 70 buses to bring busloads of hornswoggled poor people to Washington, DC to watch Arne's over-the-hill gang promote segregation via charter school, all the while advocating for equality on a day marked to remember the now-esiscerated Brown v Board of Education decision. Archive 2009-05-01
- Now the Mangy Mouse is trying to milk any money it can out of the ape-raised human, hoping to, yet again, hornswoggle parents out of their hard-earned mortgage payments.
- The press and public, never really admitting that they were hornswoggled by a talented grifter, won't play the game again on a national stage. Michael Jones: Getting Away With It
- A couple of the young lions of the business will show you the limits of credibility, the far reaches of imagination, and the ease with which the less skeptical can be hornswoggled.
- Instead, he seems to have suggested he was hornswoggled by someone named Lucy.