Sentence examples for as a swindling from inspiring English sources

Raúl Esparza stars as a swindling faith healer; Christopher Ashley directs.

"Sutlers, as a rule, were described as a swindling, hard-fisted and grinding race," stated a member of the 19th.

Leonardo DiCaprio will get his shot at best actor in a comedy or musical for his turn as a swindling stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's tale of American greed, "The Wolf of Wall Street".

Malvern, who was becoming perturbed by the RF's actions, dismissed the indaba as a "swindle", claiming that the chiefs no longer had any real power; the British, meanwhile, ignored the whole exercise.

He was a con man posing as a priest, swindling churchgoers out of several thousands of dollars, police allege in court documents.

Others, however, see it as a swindle or deception.

It would be explosive if high pay continued to be seen as a swindle.

He would conceivably have seen it as a swindle, a fraud, literally an illegal pitch, like a scuffed ball.

Despite this, critics such as Member of Parliament Frank Field described it as a "hammer blow" and the Sunday Times described it as a swindle, with the hypothetical £1.5 m income described above falling to £1.2 m, a fall in income of 20%, because no tax would be reclaimable.

The King and Four Queens (1956) was a mediocre western with Gable as a con man trying to swindle a rancher (Jo Van Fleet) and her four daughters-in-law out of a fortune in stolen gold.

(Just turn on the Comedy Channel some night.) The evil that men do in the name of Mammon, swindling as a favorite American sport, illegal high jinks among upholders of the law: the ink has yet to dry on headlines about those subjects.