Chisel (Verb)
Meaning 1
Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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Meaning 2
Carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 3
Deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The con artist chiseled the elderly woman out of her life savings with a fake investment scheme.
- The used car salesman chiseled him out of his earnings from the recent garage sale.
- She felt the insurance company chiseled her out of a fair compensation for her damaged property.
- They chiseled him out of the prize money after discovering a minor technicality in the rules.
- The large corporation chiseled its employees out of their rightful bonuses through clever accounting.
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- Goldbrick
- Hornswoggle
- Bilk
- Beat
- Plume
- Pluck
- Victimize
- Mulct
- Con
- Overcharge
- Diddle
- Gyp
- Gip
- Short-change
- Welsh
- Welch
- Gazump
- Hook
- Cozen
- Bunco
- Rob
- Swindle
- Nobble
- Defraud
- Bunk
- Fleece
- Scam
- Soak
- Juggle
- Whipsaw
- Beguile