Sentence examples for attempt to swindle from inspiring English sources

Surely this can only have been the shade of W. C. Fields -just the man, of course, to stalk up to a mutuel window and boldly attempt to swindle a well-meaning race track out of $233.

This can leave the door open to different kinds of elder abuse, from family members who steal to unscrupulous telemarketers who attempt to swindle senior citizens out of their money.

But it was his pretence to be a millionaire art buyer that finally led to jail for the conman when he attempted to swindle the auctioneers Christie's out of more than £1m worth of French masterpieces.

Gilbert contended that Carte had at best made a series of serious blunders in the accounts, and at worst deliberately attempted to swindle the others.

The Atlantic rightly pillories Nilsson's revolting attempts to swindle indigenous people, but it also implies that these practices take place in legitimate REDD projects.

You can't proactively look for ways to swindle people.

In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.

Rose has been trying to swindle us for years.

"The propensities to swindle and be swindled run parallel to the propensity to speculate during a boom," he wrote.

Meanwhile, Pitezel moved to Philadelphia and opened a fake patent office to swindle inventors.

But there's no suggestion that he intended to swindle anyone.