Synonyms of hornswoggling

hornswoggling

verb

present participle of hornswoggle

as in fooling

to cause to believe what is untrue

I think we've been hornswoggled by that carnival barker

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fooling
• deceiving
• tricking
• stringing along
• kidding
• teasing
• sucking in
• taking in
• having on
• gammoning
• buffaloing
• misleading
• faking out
• juggling
• duping
• snookering
• gulling
• doing a number on
• hoodwinking
• misinforming
• snowing
• conning
• deluding
• humbugging
• stinging
• cheating
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• hoaxing
• suckering
• spoofing
• bamboozling
• bluffing
• misguiding
• leading one up the garden path
• burning
• pulling one's leg
• having
• leading one down the garden path
• cozening
• beguiling
• catching
• gaffing
• putting on
• sticking
• rooking
• bleeding
• mulcting
• swindling
• defrauding
• shortchanging
• euchring
• fleecing
• chiselling
• chiseling
• hustling
• diddling
• flimflamming
• squeezing
• skinning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• showing up
• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• unmasking
• disclosing
• debunking
• telling
• undeceiving
• divulging
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• disenchanting