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bilk

verb appropriate fraudulently, bait, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, cozen, cully, deceive, defraud, delude, dupe, elude, embezzle, entangle, evade, exploit, foist upon, fool, fraud, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, inveigle, levant, misapply, misinform, mulct, peculate, purloin, put something across, put something over, shuffle, swindle, take advantage of, take in, trick, use for one's own needs, utilize for profit, victimize

See also: defraud, dupe, ensnare, peculate, pilfer

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Rap groups and museum directors get hauled into court much faster than do billion-dollar bilkers (and, as an ethics committee capable of stalling nearly a year has shown, a Senate investigation of those who helped the bilkers is pretty hard to get rolling, too).

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