Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cheat or defraud of money or property.
- intransitive verb To obtain by fraudulent means.
- intransitive verb To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
- noun The act or an instance of swindling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cheat or defraud. The word implies, commonly, recourse to petty and mean artifices for obtaining money which may or may not be strictly illegal.
- noun The act or process of swindling; a fraudulent scheme; an act of cheating; an imposition; a fraud.
- noun Anything that is deceptive or not what it is said or thought to be.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
- transitive verb To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
defraud (someone) - verb intransitive to
obtain money orproperty byfraudulent ordeceitful methods - noun an
instance ofswindling
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- verb deprive of by deceit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This plan was a swindle from the very start, and every body in the Congress and Pentagon knew it.
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The swindle is the implicit assumption this will raise the overall correlation between compensation and quality from approximately zero to approximately one.
David Cutler on Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He leveled his gaze at me and said, "Hey, hey, hey," long dramatic pause, "swindle is an awfully harsh word."
Just Joking Dave Hingsburger 2007
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If you look up a grift in the dictionary, its defined as a swindle - a confidence game.
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I seriously doubt it … it’s not to your benefit to do so in this case. bobby swindle is soooooooo last year’s news …. after the shining start of the repugnantscum party crashed, burned and fell to the earth after that atrocious rebuttal to obama’s speech.
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Instead, the way that they accomplished the swindle is explained in this post.]
The Budget Debate, VI, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Bozo The Neoclown says: bobby swindle is soooooooo last year’s news …. after the shining start of the repugnantscum party crashed, burned and fell to the earth after that atrocious rebuttal to obama’s speech.
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Instead, the way that they accomplished the swindle is explained in this post.]
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Eckoh claimed the swindle was already in place when they took over the contract in 2004.
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The GOP candidate who compared the popular retirement program to what the dictionary defines as a swindle?
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