| 例句 |
mulctsnounpl. of mulct a sum of money to be paid as a punishmentthe loan shark usually imposed a mulct of an additional 20% on overdue payments damages, fines, forfeits, forfeitures, penalties reparationsassessments, awards, compensationsindemnities to rob by the use of trickery or threatstrying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened beats, bilks, bleeds, cheats, chisels, chouses, cons, cozens, defrauds, diddles, does, does in, euchres, fiddles, fleeces, flimflams, gaffs, gyps, hoses(slang), hustles, nobbles(British slang), plucks, reams, rips off, rooks, screws, shakes down, shortchanges, shorts, skins, skunks, squeezes, sticks, stiffs, stings, suckers, swindles, thimblerigs, victimizes extorts, wrenches, wrests, wringsclips, gouges, nicks, overcharges, soaksexploits, milksdeceives, dupes, fools, gulls, tricksropes (in)betrays, bitches, double-crossesbamboozles, fast-talks sells a bill of goods to, takes for a ride, takes to the cleaners |