Synonyms of chiseling

chiseling 1 of 2

noun

variants or chiselling

as in swindling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• swindling
• skinning
• defrauding
• cheating
• gouging
• extortion
• highway robbery
• fleecing
• overcharging

chiseling

2 of 2

verb

variants or chiselling

present participle of chisel

as in plucking

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

ruthlessly chiseled other students out of their lunch money

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plucking
• hustling
• squeezing
• cheating
• beating
• sticking
• screwing
• bleeding
• reaming
• swindling
• defrauding
• tricking
• fiddling
• fleecing
• mulcting
• wrenching
• rooking
• suckering
• victimizing
• diddling
• skinning
• hosing
• gaffing
• shortchanging
• bilking
• stiffing
• conning
• stinging
• shorting
• cozening
• chousing
• doing
• shaking down
• gouging
• extorting
• thimblerigging
• euchring
• deceiving
• nobbling
• ripping off
• doing in
• clipping
• wresting
• taking for a ride
• skunking
• soaking
• nicking
• flimflamming
• taking to the cleaners
• milking
• exploiting
• wringing
• fooling
• overcharging
• selling a bill of goods to
• gulling
• duping
• betraying
• bitching
• bamboozling
• double-crossing
• roping (in)
• fast-talking