Synonyms for hornswoggle
Most common
Definitions
- v. 1
To deceive or trick.
Don't let them hornswoggle you into buying anything you don't need.
Forms
- Past participle
- hornswoggled
e.g. hornswoggled → short-changed, conned, scammed, rooked…
Example sentences
- con Sami doesn't want an ex-con working at his office.
- scam I wonder whether or not this is some sort of scam.
- rook Can a rook in chess attack in a forward direction?
By length
- 3 letters
- con1
- 4 letters
- scam1, rook1, gull1, dupe1
- 5 letters
- trick1, bunco, mulct1
- 6 letters
- diddle2, nobble
- 7 letters
- deceive2, defraud2, swindle2
- 9 letters
- victimize3, bamboozle, victimise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (diddle2 = 2 syllables).