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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swindle +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • 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

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • 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

  • 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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