Synonyms of strings along

strings along

verb

present tense third-person singular of string along

as in tricks

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

• tricks
• fools
• deceives
• kids
• fakes out
• cozens
• teases
• has on
• hornswoggles
• sucks in
• dupes
• spoofs
• leads one up the garden path
• suckers
• does a number on
• cons
• juggles
• hoodwinks
• leads one down the garden path
• deludes
• misguides
• stings
• takes in
• misleads
• misinforms
• hoaxes
• gulls
• snows
• bamboozles
• humbugs
• buffaloes
• cheats
• has
• gaffs
• bluffs
• pulls one's leg
• burns
• snookers
• beguiles
• pulls the wool over one's eyes
• catches
• gammons
• puts on
• sticks
• euchres
• swindles
• mulcts
• shortchanges
• flimflams
• defrauds
• skins
• bleeds
• fleeces
• hustles
• diddles
• chisels
• rooks
• squeezes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reveals
• shows up
• exposes
• undeceives
• uncovers
• unmasks
• discloses
• debunks
• tells
• divulges
• unveils
• uncloaks
• disillusions
• disabuses
• disenchants