(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
(n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
(n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
(n.) Nonsense; vain words.
(n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Trump has always seen working people as nothing more than a means to an end: labor to be exploited, customers to be bilked and human capital to be used and then discarded.
(2) In lieu of a picture of Osvaldo bounding around in his billycock, here's some great bowler hats of our time: Charlie Chaplin ... Oscar Wilde ... Mr Acker Bilk, and ... Stan Laurel and Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre.
(3) The Britons being bilked right now possess the character on which this country once prided itself.
(4) It seems less fun to me, but then doubtless someone said the same when HMV's flagship Oxford Street store in London removed its listening booths into which people once crowded to hear the latest from Acker Bilk.
(5) In 1962, Stranger on the Shore [a UK and US hit by jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk] blighted my life.
(6) Shareholders would lose nothing from the little wangle; it was merely the public purse that would be bilked of precious millions.
Evade
Definition:
(v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
(v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
(v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Trypanosoma brucei) has the ability to express on its cell surface a repertoire of variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) and in so doing, evades the immune response of the host (antigenic variation).
(3) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
(4) "It's also very hard to evade a question that comes from a town hall person," she said during a discussion of the format and how the candidates will respond.
(5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
(6) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
(7) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.
(8) The model also lends itself to studies of the immunologic interrelationships between innate and acquired resistance to infection with schistosomes, as well as the mechanisms by which these parasites evade the host immune response.
(9) Here's Messi playing in Adriano, but his cross evades Villa in the middle.
(10) According to unedited training videos seen by Sky News captured from an Isis trainer by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, an research and development team may have produced fully working remote-controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, which they have fitted with mannequins rigged to give off heat to suggest they are human and so to evade bomb-scanning machines.
(11) As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest... and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.” Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night.
(12) The authors found, almost as an aside to their central examination of tax evasion, that the occupations represented in parliament "are very much those that evade tax, even beyond lawyers".
(13) He also said tax evaders using Liechtenstein had been offered "amnesty-lite" deals.
(14) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
(15) Two ways to alter the perception that health professionals evade or ignore the problem are discussed.
(16) But the next real opportunity would fall to USA , Jozy Altidore running onto an Fabian Johnson cross that had evaded its intended target, Michael Bradley, in the middle of the box.
(17) Her worries were confirmed hours later, when Manuel Delgado, another lawyer emerged from the courtroom during a recess and declared "the princess came very prepared to evade any questions".
(18) The present study was performed to determine whether the propensity of the type b organism to cause invasive infections is due to a unique ability to evade complement-mediated host defenses.
(19) The prosecution in the trial had alleged that the two men had evaded tax on payments totalling £189,000 that were made by Mandaric into Redknapp's offshore bank account while the two men were at Portsmouth football club.
(20) could be due to a Leishmania-induced mechanism by means of which this organism may evade the immune response.