bilks
- present tense form of bilk (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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She soon falls prey to a shady scheme that bilks her out of a large sum of money.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021
Attempting to escape her, Sally encounters another nightmare creature, who bilks her of much of her small stash of money with a sob story that’s clearly bogus.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017
Whenever they include other episodes from the novel�principally a scene in which the Confidence Man bilks a barber out of a shave by appealing to his trust�they needlessly distract attention from the main drama.
From Time Magazine Archive
You larn that go off of they there Frenchy bilks?
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Johnny Wilkes, Johnny Wilkes, Thou greatest of bilks, How changed are the notes you now sing!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
