swindling

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of swindle

noun

  1. The act by which somebody is swindled.
    […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […] 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, page 226

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