Crossword clues for swindling
swindling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling.] [See Swindler.] To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres.
--Carlyle.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which somebody is swindled. vb. (present participle of swindle English)
Usage examples of "swindling".
A Drasnian's intelligence, however, is devoted almost exclusively to swindling his neighbors, so he doesn't waste it on things philosophical.
Oddly, considering the fact that this was Drasnia, the strict morality of Darion and Selana raised them in the eyes of their neighbors far more than any amount of scheming, swindling, or spiteful gossip possibly could have.
They're afraid of magic because a magician could conceivably create money instead of swindling it out of others.
He spent his days swindling customers, and I spent mine practicing my dancing.
Who is using a counterfeiter and a soldier of fortune and swindling honest American bankers and business men as no man crook--you seem to like that word--crook--could ever do?
I forgot, for the moment, the little detail of how, in swindling me, she had only turned my own trick back on myself.