She went so far as to say that he was a swindler.
Source: tatoeba (310011)
Swindler
Synonyms for "swindler" (169 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Noun(16 words)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (84)
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Translations
78 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φέναξ noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Arabic
1 entries- مُحْتَال noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- fırıldaqçı noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Catalan
2 entries- estafador noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- estafadora noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 江湖騙子 /江湖骗子 noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- 騙子 /骗子 noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Czech
3 entries- podvodník noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- šejdíř noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- švindlíř noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Dutch
2 entries- zwendelaar noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- zwendelaarster noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Esperanto
1 entries- fikomercisto noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Finnish
2 entries- huijari noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- petkuttaja noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
French
3 entries- aigrefin noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- escroc noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- margoulin noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Galician
3 entries- caloteiro noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- estafador noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- moinante noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
German
4 entries- Betrüger noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- Betrügerin noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- Gauner noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- Gaunerin noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Greek
1 entries- κομπιναδόρος noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Hindi
1 entries- ठग noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Hungarian
4 entries- csaló noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- svindler noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- szédelgő noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- szélhámos noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Indonesian
3 entries- bajingan noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- pecundang noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- penipu noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Italian
4 entries- ciarlatano noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- defraudatore noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- gabbatore noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- ingannatore noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Japanese
1 entries- 詐欺師 noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Kazakh
1 entries- алаяқ noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Ladino
3 entries- batakchi noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- dalaveradji noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- kazikchi noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Latin
1 entries- fraudātor noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Macedonian
2 entries- измамник noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- трчилаж noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Marathi
3 entries- उपटणारा noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- उपट्या noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- ठग noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Māori
1 entries- kaitāware noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Norman
1 entries- aigrefîn noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- hîleker noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- xapîner noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schwindla noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Polish
2 entries- oszust noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- szuler noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Portuguese
2 entries- caloteiro noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- estelionatário noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Russian
4 entries- афери́ст noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- афери́стка noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- жу́лик noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- моше́нник noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Spanish
4 entries- chapucero noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- defraudador noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- engañabobos noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- estafador noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Swahili
1 entries- mlaghai noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Swedish
1 entries- svindlare noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Tagalog
1 entries- balasubas noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Turkish
1 entries- dolandırıcı noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Welsh
2 entries- twyllwr noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
- twyllwraig noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Yiddish
1 entries- שווינדלער noun (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
Source: tatoeba (425554)
Above all, don't buy anything from him: he's a blithering swindler.
Source: tatoeba (693745)
Dan lost his money to a swindler.
Source: tatoeba (3930411)
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