bilker
Example Sentences
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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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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 George Manville Fenn
Cabby was evidently quite convinced that his eccentric fare was not a bilker.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
