variants
or chiseller
as in cheat
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
the chiseler made off with nearly a million dollars before anyone realized what was going on
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Noun
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Others might feel the author cheats here, leaving it up to the reader to decide.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
11 Jan. 2026 -
The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.—
John Penner,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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But my collection intentionally ignored the fraudulent exploits of billionaire heirs, tax dodgers and corporate magnates — defense contracts, government lobbying, bank accounts in Switzerland, shell companies in Panama, citizenship of Antigua and political asylum in London.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Denise Rich, a Democratic donor, gave four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to his Presidential-library foundation, and Clinton, on his final day in office, pardoned her ex-husband, Marc Rich, a tax dodger and a sanctions evader who’d fled to Switzerland.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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Specifically, on average, silky sharks spent only about 47 percent of their time inside the Galápagos Marine Reserve, an area often held up as a global gold standard for marine protection.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The attack at Point Plomer comes a day after a surfer in his 20s sustained serious leg injuries when he was bitten by a shark at North Steyne Beach, Manly, in New South Wales.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
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This scam, according to Kent, could be proliferated with the use of AI, which can allow swindlers to enroll in many different college programs at once.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Suspicion falls on her boyfriend, Tom, a notorious con artist and Tinder-swindler.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Chiseler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiseler. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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