Synonyms of swindling

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noun

as in defrauding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defrauding
• cheating
• skinning
• chiselling
• chiseling
• extortion
• gouging
• overcharging
• fleecing
• highway robbery

swindling

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verb

present participle of swindle

as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings, and all they had to show for it were fake land deeds

Synonyms & Similar Words

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