Synonyms of snookering

snookering

verb

present participle of snooker

as in fooling

to cause to believe what is untrue

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of snookering

As Swift makes clear, the Theatre endured only because Burbage was good at improvising and snookering his business partners. — Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025