is swindling
- present progressive of swindle (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Then he gets into the gray area that is swindling.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2012
"For Aaron," Fincher says in the movie's press notes, "invention is somebody sitting alone in a room ... and for me, invention is swindling the right people ..."
From Time ● Sep. 24, 2010
But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful."
From Time Magazine Archive
Peterson likes to quote Thomas Jefferson's observation to James Madison that passing on debt to future generations is "swindling futurity."
From Time Magazine Archive
That is, swindling Jeanne carried it off, and brought it back, with an entry made by Villette de Rétaux in the margin, thus: “Bon, bon—Approuvé, Marie Antoinette de France.”
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
