swindling in English

verb

1

use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions.

a businessman swindled investors out of millions of dollars

verb

• defraud, cheat, trick, dupe, deceive, fool, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle, fleece, con, bilk, sting, hose, diddle, rip off, take for a ride, pull a fast one on, put one over on, take to the cleaners, gull, stiff, euchre, hornswoggle, cozen
• goldbrick, con, mulct, gip, bunco, diddle, hornswoggle, scam, nobble, defraud, victimize, short-change, gyp, rook

Use "swindling" in a sentence

1. 22 Murder and swindling are crimes.

2. 9 Swindling will not help support yourself.

3. Slaughter, Lieutenant, Captain Waters's accomplice in swindling the Tuggses.

4. 17 Slaughter, Lieutenant,[www.Sentencedict.com] Captain Waters's accomplice in swindling the Tuggses.

5. 24 He is unprincipled, swindling the widow and her fatherless son.

6. He is unprincipled, swindling the widow and her fatherless son.

7. The report into Lehman's failure will no doubt prompt much snorting about swindling investment bankers.

8. 26 We will place in the public security department on file with the economic crime of swindling.

9. Synonyms for Buncoing include cheating, conning, swindling, defrauding, fleecing, bilking, stiffing, suckering, cozening and tricking

10. 20 Forbes, too, ended up in prison for swindling the government over supplies to hospitals.

11. 29 The report into Lehman's failure will no doubt prompt much snorting about swindling investment bankers.

12. Litigious swindling is a new act that harms the society. This act has appeared in judicial practice in recent years.

13. 23 But when it comes to swindling more sophisticated identification tools, such as fingerprint testing, the carbon copies aren't so savvy.

14. Cozenage: 1 n a fraudulent business scheme Synonyms: scam Type of: cheat , rig , swindle the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

15. I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling —which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —can be called socialism.

16. 30 I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling —which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —can be called socialism.

17. 28 This article introduces the crime methods of intelligent card swindling crime: that is to commit crimes through credit cards, overdraft cards and savings cards.

18. 27 Here's one danger sign: the book's most eloquent evocations of this era of Southwestern real-estate swindling come from a newspaper, The Arizona Republic.

19. 25 Together they have given new hope to the many Nigerians who are embarrassed that their vibrant country, often ranked as the most optimistic in the world, has become a byword for swindling and fraud.