Sentence examples for swindle in from inspiring English sources

(The dictionary lists "deceive, cheat, and swindle," in its definition of the word "con". Never was a word choice more appropriate).

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This was a variation on the "unclaimed estate" swindle, in which a sucker is led to believe he stands to get a cut of a rich estate tied up in litigation if only he will contribute enough money to help straighten out the mess.

There's really no better example of Goldman Sachs' utter contempt for the American people than its swindle in the form of stealing public funds through manipulating the municipal bond market.

How had so ordinary a man pulled off the largest swindle in history?

Mr. Kirchheimer recently talked about the dating swindle in the Scam Alert column he writes for the AARP magazine.

Magicians say there is some romance to being swindled in three-card monte.

It was published in 1821 by William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, political economist and scoundrel: he was convicted of libel in England and swindling in France.

Mr. Picard is hitting a deadline for filing lawsuits seeking to recover money for people swindled in Mr. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which came crashing down two years ago today.

Some $20-25 20-25 billionwasdled in thiswindled 2012 alone, according thisorge Giordani, way as Chávez's economin guru was the architect of the system.

Those victims, he pointed out, were drawn directly from law enforcement files across the country and were thus known to have been swindled in one way or another.