- present participle of swindle.
swindling
Example Sentences
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The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
"These are not just gentlemen thieves, confidently swindling us of a few pennies here and there," says Craig Rice, who heads up the CDA.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
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
A Greek from the delta trading center of Nau- cratis, Cleomenes was an ambiguous Boss Tweed-like figure, chiefly remembered for swindling Egyptians and Greeks alike of enormous sums of money.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
