Sentence examples for swindle with from inspiring English sources

Tyler becomes humanized during the Faustian journey he undertakes after losing his wife, his job and his respectability to the sinister forces that have framed him — while inadvertently tipping him off to a huge stock swindle with grave consequences.

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 verb to jew is defined in Webster's as "to swindle; cheat; gyp" with the warning: "This is a vulgar and offensive usage even when not consciously expressing an anti-Semitic attitude". "Times have changed," said the present editor in chief, Victoria Neufeldt.

In this tale set in England in 1910, George, a con man, has his sights fixed on Adelaide, whom he plans to meet, marry and swindle, as he has done with so many other women.

This is a brisk, entertaining portrait of Charles Ponzi, the Italian immigrant and dapper rogue whose name is synonymous with "swindle".

This is particularly true of money managers who work in the shadows or seem beyond reproach even more so during booms, when the temptation to swindle grows along with the propensity to speculate.

This is particularly true of money managers who work deep in the shadows or seem beyond reproach even more so during booms, when the temptation to swindle grows along with the propensity to speculate.

The bureau said it would aggressively pursue "those who would attempt to victimize philanthropic individuals". Some of the solicitations bear a striking resemblance to variations on a widely circulated e-mail swindle often associated with Nigeria.

Newcomer Hill is compelling in the serious moments; she's brilliantly calculated in a scene that sees her seduce, spar with and swindle an older estate agent so sleazy his beer breath practically emanates from the screen.

As the primary witness for the prosecution, Enrique claims that he and Brooke were taking part in an illicit affair with plans to swindle the recently deceased for all he's worth.

But Ferrari has come up with a scheme to swindle the immune system using the tools of nanotechnology.