Thesaurus
variants:
or chiselling
Synonyms of chiseling
(Entry 1 of 2)
as in cheating, swindling
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for chiseling
chiseling
verb
variants:
or chiselling
present participle of chisel
Synonyms of chiseling (Entry 2 of 2)
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
- ruthlessly chiseled other students out of their lunch money
Synonyms for chiseling
- beating,
- bilking,
- bleeding,
- cheating,
- chousing,
- conning,
- cozening,
- defrauding,
- diddling,
- doing,
- doing in,
- euchring,
- fiddling,
- fleecing,
- flimflamming,
- gaffing,
- hosing
- [slang],
- hustling,
- mulcting,
- nobbling
- [British slang],
- plucking,
- reaming,
- ripping off,
- rooking,
- screwing,
- shaking down,
- shortchanging,
- shorting,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- squeezing,
- sticking,
- stiffing,
- stinging,
- suckering,
- swindling,
- thimblerigging,
- victimizing
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“Chiseling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiseling. Accessed 22 Jan. 2022.
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