That swindles, cheats, tricks, or deceives.

Resembling a mountebank, that acts as a mountebank; that engages in trickery or persuasion characteristic of a mountebank.

Begging, sponging, swindling.

That acts as a sharper, fraudulent, swindling, cheating, knavish.

Of a person: that acts in a cautious, mean, or underhand manner, esp. with regard to money; (also of bets, etc.) cheap, petty. Hence in extended…