Swindling

Verb

1. Present participle of swindle

Full definition of swindling

Noun

1. The act by which somebody is swindled.
• 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)... 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 ...