verb
- deceiving or tricking someone in a dishonest way
Usage: informal; present participle of hornswoggle
Examples
- The salesman was hornswoggling customers with false promises about the product.
- She accused him of hornswoggling her into signing the unfair contract.
- The politician was caught hornswoggling voters with misleading statistics.
- Stop hornswoggling me with your elaborate excuses.
- The con artist made a living by hornswoggling unsuspecting tourists.
- He realized too late that they had been hornswoggling him all along.