bilking
- present participle of bilk.
Example Sentences
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The fraudulent enterprises didn’t provide legitimate public services, though they did employ people—in the service of bilking the government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026
Not the cancer part, or the charity bilking, but if the recipes weren’t good, the app wouldn’t have been such a hit, right?
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025
A Southern California doctor accused of bilking Medicare out of millions by billing for unnecessary hospice services has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
Lawmakers wondered whether employees are bilking the government by claiming a 32% enhanced pay rate for jobs listed as working in the District, even though they are working remotely.
From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023
There were only a few vendors, and all were engaged in harried negotiations with rebels, lean and sullen and above all bored, jostling and shoving and bilking as a way to pass the time.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
