swindling

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Swindling her way into a life of luxury, Sorokin deceived Manhattan’s elite into believing she was a German heiress worth 60 million euros.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2022

Swindling some, going to bat for others and never really getting anywhere in the process.

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2015

Swindling angels held it up in the scales; it did not weigh so much as a web of gossamer.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Swindling, of course, but perfectly legal swindling, nothing to be done about it.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

Representative Fabre d'Eglantine, famed Nomenclator of Romme's Calendar, is purged out; nay, is cast into the Luxembourg: accused of Legislative Swindling 'in regard to monies of the India Company.'

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas