swindling
noun
- use of trickery, deception to obtain or take
Wiktionary
noun
- The act by which somebody is swindled.
“[…] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]”
verb
- present participle and gerund of swindle