mulct's Usage Examples:

One of the special objects of their hatred, the Jews, were also mulcted heavily by Philip, who extorted 150,000 livres from those of Paris alone.

He was thereupon prosecuted for libel by the owner of the vessel, fined "50, mulcted in costs, and, in default of payment, committed to gaol.

But attempts to execute this were so unsuccessful that it has been succeeded by a law imposing what is known as the "mulct tax," which requires the payment of "600 in quarterly instalments for a licence to sell such liquors and places a lien for the whole amount on the real property in use for the business.

's accession in 1655, Sweden's neighbours, though suspicious and uneasy, were at least not adversaries, and might have been converted into allies of the new great power who, if she had mulcted them of territory, had, anyhow, compensated them for the loss with the by no means contemptible douceur of religious liberty.

Synonyms:

gip, goldbrick, bunco, nobble, scam, rip off, short-change, con, swindle, rook, victimize, hornswoggle, gyp, chisel, short, defraud, diddle, cheat,

Antonyms:

sufficient, courteous, provident, mindful, retentive,