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"Swindle" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Con artists take advantage of the credulity of inexperienced investors and swindle them out of their money.
Where did you swindle them?
Be careful. He's not an easy one to swindle.
He determined to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he paid large cheques to a certain Mr. Cornelius, who is, I imagine, himself under another name.
He thinks, like that, that he can swindle me: he can mourn it!
He thinks he can swindle me like that : he can mourn it!
In this way a monstrous swindle was perpetrated upon the community, by fraudulently appropriating the public money to the use and benefit of private individuals.
The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.
That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.
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She swindled more than £200 out of me.
There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.
[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve.
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