mulcted

verb

past tense of mulct
as in cheated
to rob by the use of trickery or threats trying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened

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Recent Examples of mulcted As my colleague Kevin Baxter has reported, fans are beginning to feel mulcted. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mulcted
  1. cheated
  2. stung
  3. plucked
  4. hustled
  5. squeezed
  6. screwed
  7. defrauded
  8. swindled
Verb
  • The simple truth is that no single technology can fully address AI misuse or determine whether a student cheated.
    — Melissa Loble, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Scarlett Johansson sued you over that, alleging that Disney cheated her out of box office upside.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of cheated
Verb
  • Frazier was a Black sharecropper’s son who’d overcome much hardship, and the insults stung.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
  • As solitary insects with limited aggression towards humans, the risk of getting stung is often not worth your direct interference.
    — Sean Donnelly, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of stung
Verb
  • Four years later Fontaine plucked another future Hall of Famer, taking outfielder Tony Gwynn in the third round.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • His last one was in the fourth quarter by Curry, who read the short pass and plucked it out of the air for the score.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of plucked
Verb
  • Quickly, the house lights come up, and Lay and family are hustled backstage to get reacquainted.
    — Joan Kron, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Her mother hustled her to hospital, only for the doctors to realize Accurso’s active imagination had left her in the same predicament as Madeline’s friends.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of hustled
Verb
  • Producers are already being squeezed between competing supply chains.
    — MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Brands are making more on paper and keeping less in the bank, squeezed from every side by rising ad costs, tariffs and overhead.
    — David Born, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of squeezed
Verb
  • Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Sometimes a lid isn’t screwed tightly, and your foundation proves its worth all over the inside of your bag.
    — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of screwed
Verb
  • Even more alarming, DOJ says more than 12,000 people were defrauded by that single scheme more than 20 times each.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Undeterred by scrutiny from the FEC, Kao defrauded the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program newly passed by Congress.
    — William Turton, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of defrauded
Verb
  • At one point, Fred was swindled out of upward of $15,000 when someone pretended to be the owner of a house for sale that Fred wanted to buy.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Holdo swindled 32 victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for Rolex watches that never existed, authorities said.
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of swindled

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“Mulcted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mulcted. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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