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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hornswoggle .
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Marty scraped by, Alina was voted out, and Jane was hornswoggled, by gum.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior citizens: Crime and Punishment. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Not only is it disappointing that so many legislators were hornswoggled by the cute initiative messaging is everything these days, it is also alarming that they didn't understand the business case at all.
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Well, luckily for you, the publisher hornswoggled more out of me than this mere introduction.
The Codex Continual » Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#3) 2008
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Marty scraped by, Alina was voted out, and Jane was hornswoggled, by gum.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior citizens: Crime and Punishment. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Moving on, I'm also pleased to report that, while my Universal Sports Giro d'Italia blog has concluded along with the Giro itself spoiler alert: Basso won, I have been hornswoggled into "curating" yet another extracurricular blogular undertaking.
Back in the Saddle: The Unwatched Pot Boils Over BikeSnobNYC 2010
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With an approval rating that is historically low, it will not take much for people to be convinced that the book is true and that Bush has allowed himself to be hornswoggled by the biggest group of corrupt ideological bankrupt buffoons to ever advise a president.
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The press and public, never really admitting that they were hornswoggled by a talented grifter, won't play the game again on a national stage.
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The oligarchs running the bogus Education Equality Project paid for 70 buses to bring busloads of hornswoggled poor people to Washington, DC to watch Arne's over-the-hill gang promote segregation via charter school, all the while advocating for equality on a day marked to remember the now-esiscerated Brown v Board of Education decision.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jim Horn 2009
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The oligarchs running the bogus Education Equality Project paid for 70 buses to bring busloads of hornswoggled poor people to Washington, DC to watch Arne's over-the-hill gang promote segregation via charter school, all the while advocating for equality on a day marked to remember the now-esiscerated Brown v Board of Education decision.
Busing to Achieve Apartheid Schools Jim Horn 2009
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She doesn't criticize the fascist warfare state when calling out the Jiminy Crickets so perhaps people can finally start to ponder how badly they have been hornswoggled by the positivity pimps.
OpEdNews - Diary: Star Spangled Land of Misfit Toys - A Review of Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion 2009
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