Synonyms of string along

string along

verb

as in to trick

to cause to believe what is untrue

the student succeeded in stringing even his teachers along with his tales of family hardships

Synonyms & Similar Words

• trick
• fool
• deceive
• suck in
• kid
• fake out
• do a number on
• tease
• have on
• lead one up the garden path
• lead one down the garden path
• snow
• take in
• mislead
• buffalo
• juggle
• sucker
• con
• bluff
• dupe
• put on
• gull
• pull the wool over one's eyes
• delude
• hoax
• misinform
• sting
• misguide
• humbug
• pull one's leg
• hoodwink
• cheat
• spoof
• cozen
• gaff
• bamboozle
• have
• burn
• catch
• beguile
• snooker
• gammon
• hornswoggle
• stick
• defraud
• skin
• shortchange
• fleece
• swindle
• bleed
• mulct
• chisel
• rook
• hustle
• euchre
• diddle
• squeeze
• flimflam

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• show up
• reveal
• undeceive
• expose
• uncover
• disclose
• tell
• unmask
• debunk
• divulge
• unveil
• uncloak
• disabuse
• disillusion
• disenchant

Examples of string along in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Then there’s the transmission system — those big high towers with lots of cables strung along them. —Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024

Damascus excels at stringing along negotiations, and the UN talks in Geneva that Washington has pinned its hopes on are stalemated. —Robert S. Ford, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2021

The small towns strung along the Long Island Sound combine quiet coastal beauty and gobs of old-timey charm (think picture-perfect inns and cozy taverns). —Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024

When completed in 2014, the RSN (originally also called Neptune) will boast eight nodes strung along 900 km of cable running out from the Oregon coast as two distinct strands. —IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2012