Hornswoggle used in a sentence

Hornswoggle in a sentence as a verb

They aren't of course -- it's just a giant hornswoggle. This "world" needs to end, and it needs to end soon.

I think we’ve been hoodwinked, deceived, and hornswoggled.

They let the US dictate the treaty and just don't seem to recognize, how the EU is hornswoggled.

He smiles slightly while working on the puzzle, hornswoggle, that's the one he's going to sneak into the next article.

If they hornswoggled me into helping them, it’s evidence of their strong leadership qualities. That's exactly right.

Without looking it up, I could guess horn refers to phone and swoggled is another swindled, so to hornswoggle is to phone-scam.

But you will find yourself wholly unable to patent it in the US, unless you manage to hornswoggle the examiner.

If they hornswoggled me into helping them, it’s evidence of their strong leadership qualities. I was just the mindless peon whose work was so irrelevant that it could be pre-empted at a moment’s notice.

It's a good thing the English language is a different kettle of fish that doesn't hornswoggle us blithering idiots while we chew the fat and things go pear-shaped.

The out-of-the-box demos were amazing; you'd get hornswoggled into thinking you were going to be doing all that kind of crazy stuff with the computer. Remember Iris Explorer?

I may be have hornswoggled into one of their meetings at the time, and despite my vague enthusiasm for the technology, I felt like I was being sold a timeshare.

I feel he's been hornswoggled here. Basically fascists have controlled popular economic thought for so long he thinks economics = fascism.

Personally I think my old dentist got rid of her previous hygenist that wouldn't agree to hornswoggle patients and they tried to get me to do expensive treatments.

There are ways to hornswoggle a trained machine learning model into generating new outputs that "kinda sorta" look like bits and pieces of an input that was used for training. It's tricky, and not always reliable, but it would be a reasonable thing to attempt.

Every time there is impaired thinking, a hornswoggle of the innocent and the credulous is probably well underway. And the crucial moment to challenge impaired thinking is when it presumes to dictate public policy.

I just want to make sure we are not all being hornswoggled like usual by the powers that be. I should also add that I found this info by searching "does combusting hydrogen always produce water", because my intuition was telling me the implication was not completely correct.

It's easy to laugh at all those investors who got hornswoggled by an out-and-out narcissist. It's less easy when the team is super- smart, the founders super-motivated and the only factors missing just happen to be what separates the 10% from the 1% who are truly successful.

> I'm not entirely sure what you're saying but it sounds like your theory is that Texan and Georgian voters were hornswoggled by New York and California carpetbaggers so their votes somehow don't matter for this discussion. No, I’m making a completely different argument.

After all there are people like us out there that will hornswoggle you, luckily you can retain us Again to deliver the original contract and you should consider a separate retainer so we can protect you from people like us in the future. Id love to see a single instance where Deloitte admitted to fault and footed the bill for a $100M contract, care to link proof for such a claim?

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying but it sounds like your theory is that Texan and Georgian voters were hornswoggled by New York and California carpetbaggers so their votes somehow don't matter for this discussion. The plain fact is that as of 2020 approximately as many Texan voters wanted Biden as Trump, to where a 3% shift would have changed the result.

I can still remember the look of wordsmithed defeat by the other executives when he declared, in a meeting, that they where carpetbagging hornswogglers for deciding something without him. I have to say I nearly fell out of my chair with laughter in seeing how impressed with himself he was. The meeting quickly devolved into defining what was a carpetbagger and what was being hornswoggled, as well as requests for other words in which my friend declared that they need to get their own US mentor and not steal his.

Or dig deep into English vocabulary and select a more appropriate synonym without the unwanted association: hustled, conned, swindled, scammed, deceived, ripped off, tricked, cheated, flimflammed, bamboozled, bilked, duped, hornswoggled, rooked, fleeced, burned, chiseled, snowed, fast talked, screwed, shafted, bled, suckered, stiffed, milked, gouged, overcharged... there are probably more.

So if you are below 50,000 employees, the answer to your question would be, "In general, there is nothing in it economically for employers, other than they feel good, their HR department is being hornswoggled by salespeople, or they have done some clear, good accounting with a record of wellness programs going back years which have demonstrated some positive correlation between better health and some indicator for the bottom line of their business." If you are talking about the 50,000+ employee category, then in general there are economic benefits which can be proven in the world of accounting.