swindling
Example Sentences
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In August, a St. Louis man was convicted of swindling $200,000 from Kohl’s, according to the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Missouri.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
Hiding her true identity behind more than 40 aliases, con artist Annie Gordon Baillie made a living swindling shopkeepers across Victorian Britain.
From BBC • May 22, 2025
He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
National Police chief Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, at a meeting Monday of top prefectural criminal investigators, said “tokuryu” have been part of surging cases of swindling via social media and have become a “serious concern.”
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
The only person they could ask about the painting was Valfierno himself, the person swindling them.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
