swindlery

English

Etymology

From swindle +‎ -ery.

Noun

swindlery (countable and uncountable, plural swindleries)

1. Swindling; trickery.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 49:

     Swindlery and Blackguardism

References

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