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(1) Was he really trying to hornswoggle the troops and the American people?(2) 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.(3) Before an audience of people who supposedly spend their days pursuing the truth, he joked about misstatements (if not lies) he had used to persuade (if not hornswoggle ) the American people and the media.(4) This episode just shows that scientists and technicians who are exposed to phenomena that are sufficiently far out of their fields, can be completely hornswoggled .(5) I have a vision at this point of Quantum Fields staggering back and, hand to brow, muttering ‘Godfrey Daniel, I've been hornswoggled !’(6) 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.(7) Whilst being muggled and hornswoggled , Eddie managed to reach into his pocket, pull out his pistol, and shoot himself in the leg.(8) There is also a sobering running assumption that Jessica, as a woman of what the French call a certain age, is starved for love and easily hornswoggled by any handsome young man who cozies up to her.(9) And Mike was hornswoggled enough to replace some of his martial graphics with a picture of some nice mountain scenery.(10) She had been mistaken, lulled, hopeful, hornswoggled .(11) And how could they have been so brazenly hornswoggled ?(12) This site also cites a trick attributed to Christopher Columbus in 1504, in which he is said to have hornswoggled the dumb island natives he was dealing with.(13) I have seen magic done without props but never without an audience; any audience will do, but I must leave hornswoggling to the aspiring magician.(14) But at least that is useful, I guess - given the way people so often get hornswoggled by so-called ‘experts’ these days.(15) So don't be hornswoggled into thinking that this is some sort of magic bridge between the legendary and the not-so-good.(16) However those responsible for this 30th Anniversary release are sentenced to 30 years of hard labor in the California desert for lying to, cheating, and hornswoggling an unsuspecting public.
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1. goldbrick
2. con
3. mulct
4. swindle
6. bunco
7. diddle
8. scam
9. nobble
10. defraud
11. victimize
12. short-change
13. gyp
14. rook


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