Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The acts or practices of a swindler; roguery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Swindling; rougery.
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- noun
Swindling ;roguery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fortune-hunters of all denominations were there, from hirsute insolvency in a curricle, to closely-buttoned swindlery in doubtful boots, on the sharp look-out for any likely young gentleman disposed to play a game at billiards round the
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Fortune-hunters of all denominations were there, from hirsute insolvency, in a curricle, to closely - buttoned swindlery in doubtful boots, on the sharp look-out for any likely young gentleman disposed to play a game at billiards round the corner.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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But for a wretched Simulacrum, a hungry Impostor without eyes or heart, practising for a mess of pottage such blasphemous swindlery, forgery of celestial documents, continual high-treason against his Maker and Self, we will not and cannot take him.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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