Sample Sentences forbilk (auto-selected)
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They misrepresented potential risks, accepted large fees up front, and bilked millions of dollars from small investors. (source)bilked = cheated people out of (money)
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—and mind you, keep you ON wailing, and abate not till we bilk him of his penny, else shall you rue it.† (source)
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Short cons for the most part, bilking foolish marks and making a reasonable living.† (source)
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"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)
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They'll make a secret of it now to prove they've not been bilked.† (source)
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I am not used to being bilked.† (source)
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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)
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"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)
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You larn that go off of they there Frenchy bilks?† (source)
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There was a cracker in Tulsa who bilked so many Negroes he could set up a Negro Bilking Company.† (source)
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There was a cracker in Tulsa who bilked so many Negroes he could set up a Negro Bilking Company.† (source)
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