Definition of "swindlery" []

• Swindling; roguery. (noun)

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• "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"
• "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."
• "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."