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Mulct   /məlkt/   Listen
Mulct

verb
(past & past part. mulcted; pres. part. mulcting)
1.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
2.
Impose a fine on.






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"Mulct" Quotes from Famous Books



... excellent laws, touching marriage. They allow no polygamy. They have ordained that none do intermarry, or contract, until a month be past from their first interview. Marriage without consent of parents they do not make void, but they mulct it in the inheritors; for the children of such marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third part of their parents' inheritance. I have read in a book of one of your men, of a feigned commonwealth, where ...
— Ideal Commonwealths • Various



Words linked to "Mulct" :   rip off, library fine, cheat, chisel, levy, impose, short, penalty



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