bilkin a sentence
- They misrepresented potential risks, accepted large fees up front, and bilked millions of dollars from small investors.† (source)
- Short cons for the most part, bilking foolish marks and making a reasonable living.† (source)
- I am not used to being bilked.† (source)
- They'll make a secret of it now to prove they've not been bilked.† (source)
- "I thought you were dying," I said, conscious then, as I had been ever since I arrived, of the predominating emotion of vexation, rather than of relief, that I had been bilked of my expectations of a grand tragedy.† (source)
- He couldn't urge any man to inform against him - that would be tempting him to sin - but at the same time if there was an informer here, there was no reason why the wretched creature should be bilked of his reward.† (source)
- —and mind you, keep you ON wailing, and abate not till we bilk him of his penny, else shall you rue it.† (source)
- You larn that go off of they there Frenchy bilks?† (source)
- "I promise you," answered Nightingale, "I don't intend to bilk my lodgings; but I have a private reason for not taking a formal leave."† (source)