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Swindle   /swˈɪndəl/   Listen
Swindle

noun
1.
The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.  Synonyms: cheat, rig.
verb
(past & past part. swindled; pres. part. swindling)
1.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"



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"Swindle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Luiz; so I'll tell him. At least the knowledge will gravel him and take all the joy out of that stinking little spruce swindle ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... as a young girl, and only a year before her father's death, and when she was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically and with a little speech made her a present of a doll, which was, by the way, the confiscated property of Miss Swindle, discovered surreptitiously nursing it in school-hours. How the father and daughter laughed as they trudged home together after the evening party, and how Miss Pinkerton would have raged had she ...
— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... so good as to choose one of these bags to make a test? It will be much better if you see yourself that the business is above board, with no swindle about it. Choose ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various

... uncertain strides, or in the high-featured, mild-eyed face: neither was there anything mean in his wrath. It was all directed against himself. His Swedish blood had infused a gentle laziness into his temper, and he had forgiven Laidley long ago for his lifelong swindle, as no American with English grandfathers would ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

... right, madam," added Peter Conant, "for concocting the plot to swindle Alora's father out of the money his dead wife intended him to have. You are not properly punished, for you should be sent to jail, but your disappointment will prove ...
— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum


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