[f. SWINDLE v.2 + -ING2. Cf. prec.]
1. That swindles; acting or dealing fraudulently.
1795. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. Pref. p. xv. Ignorant or swindling dealers at Naples.
1809. J. Adams, Wks. (1854), IX. 610. Our medium is depreciated by the multitude of swindling banks.
1877. Black, Green Past., xiv. The swindling old heathen.
2. Of acts, etc.: Involving a swindle, fraudulent.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, VII. xii. ¶ 11. He declared his … abhorrence of becoming a party … in a mere swindling trick.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, xvi. 283. Since his name for virtue served as an effective part of a swindling apparatus.
Hence Swindlingly adv.
1887. Mrs. Daly, Digging, etc., S. Australia, xvi. 171. Shareholders [in gold-mines] would not meet the calls, and the break-up of many of the more swindlingly formed enterprises naturally ensued.
