0 present participle of swindle
1 to get money dishonestly from someone by deceiving or cheating them:
They swindled local businesses out of thousands of dollars.
The wealthy banker was ultimately convicted of swindling investors.
He accused the government of swindling taxpayers.
The conman swindled thousands of euros from travellers after spinning them sob stories about his dead wife.
I do not think that the £100 which was suggested would be in any way adequate for offences of swindling the public by these shady practices.
How many foreign visitors, fleeced by mock auctioneers, have been surprised that such obvious swindling could be conducted in such brazen and open fashion?
Swindling, the age of consent and various other examples of how we might gain have been raised.
This is largely because many have had experience of the swindling tactics of the mock auctioneer.
Some mock auctioneers have made themselves rich men by their swindling methods, and the courts must have power to teach them a real lesson.
