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swindlery

swindlery noun: swindling; trickery.

Noun

swindlery (countable and uncountable, plural swindleries)

  1. Swindling; trickery.
    • Swindlery and Blackguardism1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 49

Forms of swindlery

pluralswindleries

Origin of swindlery

From swindle + -ery.

Questions about swindlery

What does swindlery mean?
Swindlery means swindling; trickery.
What part of speech is swindlery?
Swindlery is a noun.
What is the plural of swindlery?
The plural of swindlery is swindleries.

Words near swindlery in the dictionary

  1. Swindlehurst
  2. swindler
  3. swindleries
  4. swindlers
  5. swindlership
  6. swindlery
  7. swindles
  8. swindling
  9. swindlingly
  10. swindlings
  11. Swindon

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