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
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
That’s not to say that established markets are immune from swindling, only that markets without benchmarks lend themselves to some of the alleged activities.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
The only person they could ask about the painting was Valfierno himself, the person swindling them.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
