bilker

Example Sentences

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He had become a modern anti-hero of sorts�a bilker of corporations and master of that old American art form, the tall tale.

From Time Magazine Archive

In lieu thereof comes a doubtful greeting and a demand for a deposit of money, for fear lest he should be some vulgar bilker.

From With Zola in England by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Cabby was evidently quite convinced that his eccentric fare was not a bilker.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis

The driver gave a glance at him, but the butler looked too respectable for a bilker, and he settled down for a quiet smoke, muttering, “Grapes or pears.”

From Blind Policy by Fenn, George Manville