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swindle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cheat, rig |
| Type of | fraud |
| Has types | confidence game, confidence trick, cozenage, flimflam, gip, gyp, bunco, hustle, pyramiding, scam, shell game, sting, swiz, thimblerig, holdout, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game |
Examples of swindle
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Some experts, prior to the Madoff mega-swindle, were all for lesser regulation.
From the time.com
He was the only one to call The Global Warming swindle for what it is, a swindle.
From the economist.com
Its the usual swindle and the Government and there friends are making profits.
From the express.co.uk
Prosecutors are probing whether Madoff's subordinates helped him swindle investors.
From the bloomberg.com
Here we go again, another Big Oil swindle with a proposed dirty oil pipeline.
From the heraldtribune.com
A documentary released in the UK claimed that global warming was one great swindle.
From the newscientist.com
Third, the Vegas thing as a classic sports ruse meant to swindle the voters.
From the freep.com
Swindle says he gave the legislator a break, as he says is often done for lawmakers.
From the heraldtribune.com
His swindle was no more than a flashy version of the classic Nigerian windfall scam.
From the smh.com.au
- The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
- Victimize: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
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- In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. It may also refer more generally to obtaining a win or draw from a clearly losing position. I. A. ...
- Swindle is a 2002 crime thriller film written and directed by K.C. Bascombe and starring Tom Sizemore, Sherilyn Fenn and Dave Foley.
- Swindle was a bi-monthly arts and culture publication founded in 2004 by artist Shepard Fairey. Swindle has not been published since 2009 and is, in effect, folded.
- Swindle is the name given to several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes.
- Il bidone (The Swindle and The Swindlers) (1955) is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others.
- The Swindle (Rien ne va plus) is a 1997 French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert.
