Sentence examples for a swindling from inspiring English sources

The 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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Was the Surrey council tax referendum a swindle all along?

A psychic is accused of swindling a Plainsboro woman out of $183,000 in cash and jewelery.

And instead of swindling a person, he tried to rob a country — of $27 million.

A scheming Chicago street cleaner corners the match market, swindling a movie star on the way.

There is almost no chance of swindling an unsuspecting seller of a famous edition.

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