swindlery

English

Etymology

From swindle +‎ -ery.

Noun

swindlery (countable and uncountable, plural swindleries)

1. Swindling; trickery.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     swindlery and blackguardism

References

• “swindlery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.