swindle
verb (used with object)
to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
is swindling
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present progressiveof swindle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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
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
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
The plain English word for such doings is, swindling.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
