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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a swindling" is not correct in standard English usage.
The term "swindling" is typically used as a verb or an adjective, and it does not commonly appear as a noun in this form.
Example: "He was accused of swindling the investors out of their money."
Alternatives: "a scam" or "a con".
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In 1934 Touhy was convicted, on perjured testimony, of kidnapping one John "Jake the Barber Factorr in June July 1933, a period when Factor, as it was later proved, had been hiding out to avoid extradition to England on a swindling charge.
Now in its eighth season, "The Bachelorette" has mostly proven to be little more than a swindling fairy tale.
Raúl Esparza stars as a swindling faith healer; Christopher Ashley directs.
"Sutlers, as a rule, were described as a swindling, hard-fisted and grinding race," stated a member of the 19th.
After achieving full papacy, he's murdered by a swindling archbishop, in a nod to conspiracy theories surrounding the sudden death of the real John Paul I in 1978.
Jewish and African-American stereotypes (variously, a swindling peddler and a shoeshine girl) were edited out of the Three Little Pigs and Fantasia, respectively.
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