swindle
verb (used with object)
to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
was swindling
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past progressiveof swindle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Paw never felt he was swindling the landlords because he always knew that some day he would get back on WPA.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I didn’t think I was swindling anybody,” said I evasively.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed
It appeared that Coysh had vowed to Royle that he would have no mercy on anybody who was swindling him, no matter who it might be.
From Witching Hill by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
