Sentence examples for swindler of from inspiring English sources

swindler of landlords, haberdashers and railway companies.

Brennan, now 57, is a swindler of a recognizable type: totally unscrupulous, with the nerve and audacity of a second-story man, but also with a touch of class that has always given him friends in high places.

If Gatsby were around today, maybe he'd be Bernie Madoff or one of the other swindlers of Wall Street fallen to earth.

It would be comforting to believe that would-be swindlers of the future will take Mr. Madoff's demise to heart.

Socks and Ernie became outcasts even as Bill Clinton had the humongous gall to welcome home one of the biggest tax swindlers of all time, Marc Rich, who had been an outcast living in splendor in Switzerland.

In 2005, while trying to locate my long-lost boarding-school nemesis, a burly boy named Cesar Augusto (the subject of "Whipping Boy," my story in this week's issue), I was compelled to dig through fourteen cartons of discovery material generated during the federal prosecution of the Badische Trust Consortium, a colorful international band of swindlers, of which Cesar was a principal shill.

No mania in the bizarre history of Death Valley — the prospectors and swindlers of the late nineteenth century; the playboy adventurers and car racers of the Jazz Age; the psychedelic goings on in the sixties and seventies, including a residency by the Manson family — matched the Superbloom invasion.

Everybody is afraid of swindlers, of a failure.

We don't mean to be pushy, but how about stopping the swindlers of all sizes before they've stripped their victims to the bone?

He is of harmless and inoffensive disposition, and is not, I sincerely believe, aware of the meanness and audacity of the swindler to which he is presently a party.

Subprime lending was not a scheme cooked up by a hidden cabal of swindlers meeting in out-of-the-way motel rooms to fix prices, but a loudly-merchandised enterprise by publicly-traded companies that was embraced by government policy that cheered easy home ownership as an American "right".