Swindling

Word SWINDLING
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Definitions and meanings of "Swindling"

What do we mean by swindling?

To defraud.

To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

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The word "swindling" in example sentences

Only a Republican would call swindling people in the name of patriotism a “philosophy.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘Why, Lufton, am I to understand then, that you are accusing me of having any interest in these transactions which you have called swindling?’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was this which must have given Gallet the idea of swindling the Legitimists. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

As, however, the cardinal's extravagance had left him with little means of supplying her necessities, Madame La Mothe conceived the idea of swindling Boehmer out of his necklace, and of making de Rohan an accomplice in the fraud. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)

One would have fancied it obvious that a man whose whole occupation was based on what in his own language is called swindling, if it is done under other conditions, ought to be ashamed of his position, and could not any way, while he continues a merchant, profess himself a Christian or ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

"Why, Lufton, am I to understand, then, that you are accusing me of having any interest in these transactions which you have called swindling?" ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

For my part, with all my love for my profession, I liked ingenuity still better than force, and preferred what the vulgar call swindling, even to the highroad. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

As to extra-legal plunder, such as theft, or swindling, which is defined, foreseen, and punished by the penal code, I do not think it can be adorned by the name of socialism. ❋ Fr��d��ric Bastiat (1825)

It's not called swindling amongst gentlemen who know the world -- it's only jockeying -- fine sport -- and very honourable to help a friend at a dead lift. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Lutz would be the perfect “straight man” for Brüno, going along with his insane ideas such as swindling a baby from an African tribe and trying to become heterosexual. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Congress approves the Treasury Secretary's $700 billion bail-out of dysfunctional banks, it would be hard to invent a better example of what Jefferson foresaw: authorised "swindling". ❋ Patrick Vessey (2008)

And this kind of swindling is going on every night in every city of ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

And this kind of swindling is going on every night in every city of America. ❋ Unknown (1918)

And the only check upon this kind of swindling the public seems to me to lie in the hands of the Examiners. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)

There was any amount of speculation in mines and mining stocks, and any amount of the worst kind of swindling going on all the time. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The cabinet, the darkness, the tying, suggest a sort of human rat-hole life exclusively and "swindling" is for him the dramatically sufficient explanation. ❋ William James (1876)

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