- present participle of swindle.
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
By the time he was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse in 2008, he had been swindling customers for decades through his wealth management firm.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
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
