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snookering

verb , present participle of snooker

Synonyms and Antonyms of snookering

to cause to believe what is untrue

I can't believe you managed to snooker me with that story about being an orphan

Synonyms of snookering

bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning, catching, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on [chiefly British], hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking

Words Related to snookering

kidding, putting on, teasing

bleeding, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling

Phrases Synonymous with snookering

doing a number on, leading one down the garden path (also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of snookering

debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking

disclosing, divulging, telling, unveiling

disabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning

Antonyms of snookering

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