swindlery

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noun

Swindling; trickery.

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Meanings

nounswindlery (countable and uncountable, plural swindleries)

plural swindleries

  1. countableuncountableSwindling; trickery.

    Swindlery and Blackguardism

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 49

Origin

From swindle + -ery.

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