Gulling

The gulling of Gloster, again, recalls the gulling of Othello. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Davies in the ninth and last of his 'gulling' sonnets, in which he ridicules the notion that a man of wit should put his wit in vassalage to any one. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

Some of our Southern gentry occasionally succeed in "gulling" some Northern advocates of slavery into the belief that the master and negroes are very happy. ❋ Unknown (1857)

In other words, we have an exemplary instance of McCarthyites gulling the naive, just as the infamous senator from Wisconsin liked to do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And not, one also hastens to say, that Sir Humphrey doesn't have so many gulling tactics up his Savile Row sleeve that it wouldn't benefit from lengthening. ❋ David Finkle (2010)

Meanwhile in the real world inflation has been far above that and for the essentails of life, the things we have to pay for to keep food on the table, a roof over our head and to transport us to our place of work, that has all risen at a rate far above the massaged figures that Brown has tried to gull us with but has ended up gulling himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You and I both know the entire purpose of this Buffalo Bill show about future enforcement is gulling us into legalizing them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Build a reputation out of gulling and martialing rubes, then move from sinecure to sinecure for the rest of his life. ❋ CC (2009)

Choice of Entertainment and Vacation Purchases There is a long tradition, in most Western countries, of gulling the public through novel entertainments that are either blatantly phony or else hyped way more than they deserve. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When are these illiterate primitives going to figure out that wingnut irrationality, stupidity, dishonesty, hatred, bigotry, pseudo-science, cyber-stalking/cyber-bullying, rube-gulling etc. not to mention their own appalling and hypocritical censorship has nothing whatsoever to do with 13.1. ❋ CC (2008)

I wouldn't mind waiting until 75 to collect a Social Security check, if it means not saddling my kids with ridiculous Social Security-related taxes; even better, I wouldn't mind converting my Social Security benefit into something that wasn't so obviously a pyramid scheme based on gulling the young for my advantage. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What's doubly ironic is that -- as I'm sure everyone has noted -- it was John McCain's goading, gulling, teasing, and prodding that got Barack Obama to go overseas in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There was once, among the menials171 of a certain mosque, a man who knew not how to write or even to read and who gained his bread by gulling folk. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It smells like the stale air coming from the smoke-filled backroom meetings of politicians and news executives in bed together, a new way the politicians and their media enablers have figured out to blow smoke in the eyes of the public they have been continually gulling in the name of open and frank political process. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She who was at that very hour gulling her tourists into buying Pueblo artifacts factory-made in Japan? ❋ Unknown (2006)