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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

"You do not mean to say that Sowerby is swindling you?" said the clergyman.

From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony