Swindle
verb
To cheat or trick someone to get money or property.
He was accused of swindling investors out of millions of dollars.
Often appears as...
- swindle out of
- swindle into
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Disapproving
noun
A fraudulent scheme or action.
His business turned out to be a swindle.
Often appears as...
- a big swindle
- a clever swindle
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Disapproving
verb
To cheat or trick someone to get money or property.
He was accused of swindling investors out of millions of dollars.
Often appears as...
- swindle out of
- swindle into
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A fraudulent scheme or action.
His business turned out to be a swindle.
Often appears as...
- a big swindle
- a clever swindle
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Using 'swindle' often implies an illegal act, so it can have serious legal implications.
The company's CEO faced jail for swindling customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Intent to Deceive
Swindling involves intent; the person doing it plans to deceive others.
She swindled her friends by selling fake concert tickets.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Focus
Although not exclusively, 'swindle' often relates to money or financial transactions.
The corrupt official swindled public funds anonymously.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Using 'swindle' often implies an illegal act, so it can have serious legal implications.
The company's CEO faced jail for swindling customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Intent to Deceive
Swindling involves intent; the person doing it plans to deceive others.
She swindled her friends by selling fake concert tickets.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Focus
Although not exclusively, 'swindle' often relates to money or financial transactions.
The corrupt official swindled public funds anonymously.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Using 'swindle' often implies an illegal act, so it can have serious legal implications.
The company's CEO faced jail for swindling customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Intent to Deceive
Swindling involves intent; the person doing it plans to deceive others.
She swindled her friends by selling fake concert tickets.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Focus
Although not exclusively, 'swindle' often relates to money or financial transactions.
The corrupt official swindled public funds anonymously.
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Surveillance on and off...
system is that drivers don't take these seriously at all they often call their logs their comic books or their coloring books or their swindle sheets and it's well known that drivers pretty rampantly fudged their logs right and that makes sense there are a lot of contingencies on the road sometimes trips just take
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Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...
and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone. In the 19th century, it was a corrupt politician. And today, we have what is perhaps our most offensive definition, at least to me, which is the To doodle officially means to dawdle, to dilly dally, to monkey around,
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The art forger who...
transforming his image into that of a folk hero who had swindled the Nazis. Thanks to this newfound notoriety, his works became valuable in their own right— so much so that they were later forged in turn by his own son.
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Surveillance on and off...
system is that drivers don't take these seriously at all they often call their logs their comic books or their coloring books or their swindle sheets and it's well known that drivers pretty rampantly fudged their logs right and that makes sense there are a lot of contingencies on the road sometimes trips just take
Video examples
Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...
and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone. In the 19th century, it was a corrupt politician. And today, we have what is perhaps our most offensive definition, at least to me, which is the To doodle officially means to dawdle, to dilly dally, to monkey around,
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The art forger who...
transforming his image into that of a folk hero who had swindled the Nazis. Thanks to this newfound notoriety, his works became valuable in their own right— so much so that they were later forged in turn by his own son.
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Quote examples
Pamela Meyer
American Author
Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Charles Krauthammer
American Journalist
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.
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William Graham Sumner
American Businessman
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
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Harry Anderson
American Actor
Did I run real swindles? Oh, yeah. I mean, I started as a - on the street. I did not begin as a performer. I began running the shell game.
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Red Cloud
Sioux Statesman
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
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Standing Bear
American Leader
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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Stephen Moore
American Writer
Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.
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Pamela Meyer
American Author
Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Charles Krauthammer
American Journalist
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.
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William Graham Sumner
American Businessman
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
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Harry Anderson
American Actor
Did I run real swindles? Oh, yeah. I mean, I started as a - on the street. I did not begin as a performer. I began running the shell game.
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Red Cloud
Sioux Statesman
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
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Standing Bear
American Leader
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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Stephen Moore
American Writer
Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.
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