swindling
English
editVerb
editswindling
- present participle and gerund of swindle
Noun
editswindling (plural swindlings)
- The act by which somebody is swindled.
- 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, page 226:
- […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]