Pamela Meyer

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.

American Author

Charles Krauthammer

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.

American Journalist

William Graham Sumner

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.

American Businessman

Harry Anderson

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.

American Actor

Red Cloud

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.

Sioux Statesman

Standing Bear

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.

American Leader

Barton Gellman

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Irish Statesman

Imelda Marcos

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Celebrity

Stephen Moore

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

American Writer

Using 'swindle' often implies an illegal act, so it can have serious legal implications.

Legal Consequences

Swindling involves intent; the person doing it plans to deceive others.

Intent to Deceive

Although not exclusively, 'swindle' often relates to money or financial transactions.

Financial Focus

A swindle can be hard to recognize; it may seem legitimate until it's too late.

Not Always Obvious

As a noun, 'swindle' implies a breach of trust, where someone was trusted but then deceived.

Trust Exploited

Victims of a swindle often seek justice or restitution for their losses.

Justice Sought

 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

Surveillance on and off...

 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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 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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