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swindle
(encz) | swindle,podvádět v: Zdeněk Brož |
Swindle
(gcide) | Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swindling.] [See Swindler.]
To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to
swindle a man out of his property.
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Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres. --Carlyle.
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Swindle
(gcide) | Swindle \Swin"dle\, n.
The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
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swindle
(wn) | swindle
n 1: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book
is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] |
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swindled
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swindler
(encz) | swindler,podvodník n: Zdeněk Brož |
Swindle
(gcide) | Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swindling.] [See Swindler.]
To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to
swindle a man out of his property.
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Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres. --Carlyle.
[1913 Webster]Swindle \Swin"dle\, n.
The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
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Swindled
(gcide) | Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swindling.] [See Swindler.]
To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to
swindle a man out of his property.
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Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres. --Carlyle.
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Swindler
(gcide) | Swindler \Swin"dler\, n. [G. schwindler, fr. schwindlen to be
dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, fr. schwindel
dizziness, fr. schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle.
See Swim to be dizzy.]
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a
practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate
artifice; a cheat.
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Syn: Sharper; rogue.
Usage: Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing
persons who take unfair advantages. A swindler is one
who obtains money or goods under false pretenses. A
sharper is one who cheats by sharp practice, as in
playing at cards or staking what he can not pay.
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Fraud and injustice soon follow, and the dignity
of the British merchant is sunk in the
scandalous appellation of a swindler. --V. Knox.
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Perhaps you 'll think I act the same
As a sly sharper plays his game. --Cotton.
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Swindlery
(gcide) | Swindlery \Swin"dler*y\, n.
Swindling; rougery. [R.] "Swindlery and blackguardism."
--Carlyle.
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swindler
(wn) | swindler
n 1: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
[syn: swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler,
gouger, scammer, grifter] |
SWINDLER
(bouvier) | SWINDLER, criminal law. A cheat; one guilty of defrauding divers persons. 1
Term Rep. 748; 2 H. Blackst. 531; Stark. on Sland. 135.
2. Swindling is usually applied to a transaction, where the guilty
party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended contract, of the
personal property of another, with the felonious design of appropriating it
to his own use. 2 Russell on Crimes, 130; Alison, Prine. Cr. Law of
Scotland, 250; Mass. 406.
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