How To Use Swindle In A Sentence
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I swear he's a swindler.
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Le larron does not seem to be used in conversational French (my daughter taught me the word after she learned it in her French class while reading a classic text) ... so here are some useful synonyms: un escroc (swindler, con man, crook) un malfaiteur (burglar) un voleur (thief)
French Word-A-Day:
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You could argue that was swindled money well spent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.”
Mark Twain
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His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other.
Ulysses
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You could argue that was swindled money well spent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The swindler broke off in the middle of his talk when he saw a policeman coming.
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The cooler heads counsel to look at the big picture, focus our anger on the larger swindle or understand that we have to put up with certain distasteful practices if we're going to get this mess cleaned up.
Lance Mannion:
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Their constitutional government is a swindle.
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A fraudster jailed after making a fortune from masterminding a timeshare swindle could be forced to pay £80 million to his victims.
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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
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It\'s easy to wonder why he remained silent while markets were soaring and investment banks were reaping trillions in profits on a structured investment swindle which has left the global financial system teetering on the brink of catastrophe. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Great Credit Unwind of '08
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But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated.
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I bought this system from you believing you to be a reputable firm and I can plainly see you've swindled me out of my money
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To protect yourself against any of these possible swindles you need to be prudent in your investment decisions.
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He will get fatter and nervier, simply because our system turns a blind eye to such a swindle.
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Swindle, 'Kenyon called a newsboy to him and bought a copy of the paper.
A Woman Intervenes
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I've met people who have foolishly spent beyond their means and I've also met a good number of people who have been cheated or swindled out of sizeable amounts.
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It's all part of the great Sarko swindle.
Times, Sunday Times
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`Charlie tells me you are working on the assumption that Callendar is a swindler ," Montagu said.
A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
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The gitano asked me a stiff price but did not swindle me.
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It is the biggest swindle in sport that the women's prizes are on a par with the men's.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too many swindlers, fool obviously not enough.
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Q: What to Michaelangelo and Kurt Cobain have in common? man the flu is now linking to the vaccine n its invisible so we CAN'T let the needle in your arms and yet the swindle flu is from mexico.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars.
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The story of a shikse (a word I'd never heard and thus had no idea was derogatory) from a small New England town, taken in, hoodwinked, and swindled blind by such skillful means as she never dreamt existed.
HUMORLESSBITCH
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During the years the institution has been in the red with its liabilities mounting up and funds and resources swindled by those at its helm in connivance with the bureaucracy and some politicians.
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Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation.
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It is wrong to ensure the lawsuit false pretence as the swindle crime, though it has some characters of swindle crime.
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I prefer the term necrotic pustular basket of cowards, cheats, thieves, swindlers, con-artists, fuckwits lying bastards, child abusers and war criminals.
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Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation.
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The Chicago Tribune called the oxbow an “outrage” perpetrated by “a set of unprincipled swindlers” intent on “building the road at the largest possible expense to the Government and the least possible expense to themselves.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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Cruel doorstep cheats who prey on elderly people claim the number one spot on a damning ‘top five’ list of the worst swindlers, conmen and thieves.
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It's all part of the great Sarko swindle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The criminals sometimes swindle money from the buyer by forging commercial documents.
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Swindle only lost on a couple of pretty small points – their handling of the last segment on Africa and a couple of restricted finings on unfairness to individusls, essentially boiling down to a finding that they had not given adequate change to IPCC or David King to respond or give enough explanation to Carl Wunsch.
Swindle and the Stick « Climate Audit
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A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays.
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He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle.
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All too regularly we carry stories detailing how con artists and thieves swindled and stole from householders.
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When Russians talk of their politicians, they frequently speak of "thieves," "bandits," and "swindlers" — and not hyperbolically: the presence of criminals in the Duma is a well-publicized fact.
Russia Is Finished
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The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds.
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If you look up a grift in the dictionary, its defined as a swindle - a confidence game.
The Latest on Air America
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She was the unwitting tool of the swindlers.
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When high street banks offer 0.1% annual interest, how can anyone offer nearly 500 times as much without straying into frauds or swindles?
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A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays.
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Vidocq served a lucrative apprenticeship with various ruffians, vagabonds and swindlers.
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These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result.
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Now the latest cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to reel in entire schools of victims.
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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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I admit I live by my wits a lot, but I don't use them to swindle people.
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I had to work my way up from scams to hustles to grifts to short-cons to swindles to long-cons to heists to inside jobs to stings to capers to scores.
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He swindled me out of my inheritance
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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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I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
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I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
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This plan was a swindle from the very start, and every body in the Congress and Pentagon knew it.
Obama scraps Bush-era missile defense for new plan
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The automobilist is a good advertiser of what he finds _en route_ that pleases him, and scores pitilessly -- to other automobilists -- everything in the nature of a swindle that he meets with, and they are not few, for in many places the automobilist is still considered fair game for robbery.
The Automobilist Abroad
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These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them.
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A head teacher accused of being in a plot to swindle thousands of pounds out of school funds in a scam involving a builder, yesterday insisted he was ‘not dishonest in any way’.
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She inveigles Paco into a plot to swindle Tania out of her savings.
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A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds.
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Telemarketing fraud - using the phone to swindle and cheat - robs U.S. consumers of about $ 40 billion a year.
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Most of these reports were of tourists being conned or swindled.
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A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds.
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The earl is pursuing him now, not only as his daughter's seducer, but as a swindler and a thief.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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There are swindles and scandals, sword fights at midnight, and complots at the palace.
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It is the biggest swindle in sport that the women's prizes are on a par with the men's.
Times, Sunday Times
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The inability of the regulators to prevent scams and swindles has also brought the private pension industry into disrepute.
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It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam.
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Its compelling first page draws you in to the strange world of Wilbur McCrum, dispossessed anti-hero extraordinaire and his outrageous adventures through cowboy country, meeting with tarts, religious swindlers, bank robbers, bounty hunters and freak shows, grappling with the problem of his great love, Ida May, who is dead and embalmed but being carted around by Wilbur.
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It was also part of a stock swindle involving hundreds of millions of dollars on the Montreal Stock Exchange.
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Too many swindlers, fool obviously not enough.
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The exponential growth of the use of money-making premium phone lines for various purposes has always had the stench of swindle about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poor woman was extremely happy to be reunited with her two sons who had been carried off by a swindler.
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He allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert and a school.
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This performance of theirs was just a ploy to swindle a few dollars out of travelers and adventurers and nothing more.
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Whenever the hoax was spoken of, Judge Harvey writhed with personal humiliation, and with anger against the person who had recalled his discomfiture, and with a desire for vengeance against the perpetrator of the swindle.
No. 13 Washington Square
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Exclusive Jason Swindlehurst was a "doting" father who met his wife through TV talk show Kilroy.
Mirror.co.uk - News
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It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial.
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Olympic sport is permanently braced against the ram-raid, the swindle, the pharmaceutical con.
The Guardian World News
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I felt sorry for those poor desperate people being swindled in such a way.
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Shanghai Bank was swindled seriously by a shroff who had done honest duty for a great number of years.
Across China on Foot
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Le larron does not seem to be used in conversational French (my daughter taught me the word after she learned it in her French class while reading a classic text) ... so here are some useful synonyms: un escroc (swindler, con man, crook) un malfaiteur (burglar) un voleur (thief)
Larron - French Word-A-Day
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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
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The SEC pins the swindle as scalping - which it defines as purchasing a security for oneself, recommending that same stock to another (typically posing as a "market specialist"), then immediately selling the stock when the market price goes up following the recommendation.
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They are accomplices of the dealer - a part of the swindle.
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Sometimes, the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees.
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The `swindler" was Tweed, a code-name chosen by the Finn who had a dry sense of humour.
COVER STORY
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Another common name for this type of swindler or confidence trickster was magsman, originally the name for a man who ran a pitch-and-toss game, which was itself sometimes called magflying from the mags, halfpennies, which were used in it.
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She swindled eight people out of $111,000 in cash and jewelry before she was stopped.
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The exponential growth of the use of money-making premium phone lines for various purposes has always had the stench of swindle about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, both men led famous swindles on the citizens they governed.
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It's a total scam, swindle, and fake, but no one in our consumer agencies has any intention of doing anything about it.
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He had an infectious way of making a charlatan believable, a Lothario's wooing credible, a swindler's eventual revelation of a heart behind his billfold totally convincing.
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It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless, as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money.
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In fact, he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate.
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They are all cheats, people say, all swindlers.
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If this man Blake is only a common swindler, I have lost a fortune.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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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
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Most victims were swindled into paying €3,000 or more.
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On the pinkie of her right hand she wears a large yellow jade stone set in diamonds, a traditional symbol worn by rich people to protect themselves from swindles.
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The clothing firm boss was the ringleader in a plot which swindled the Inland Revenue and Benefits Agency out of almost £500,000 over three years.
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Unless a lot of people were lying to me that didn't start until the day Denton killed the swindler.
THE WAILING WIND
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It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam.
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Chiefly British A swindle ; a cheat.
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The story concerns a criminal gang called The Vampires, mysterious and resourceful, that terrorizes France with a succession of swindles, robberies, and murders.
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I'll fix him for calling me a swindler!
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It's really all a great swindle.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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In both cases he's arguably signed contracts with the intention to swindle money.
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It's easy to wonder why he remained silent while markets were soaring and investment banks were reaping trillions in profits on a structured investment swindle which has left the global financial system teetering on the brink of catastrophe.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Great Credit Unwind of '08
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In the weeks before his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme was revealed, lawyer Scott Rothstein repaid hundreds of millions of dollars to the investors he had swindled, according to records filed in bankruptcy court this week.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 25, 2009
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In the past, when markets were more unfettered, swindlers were flagrant.
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When the time for holding the next court arrived, others came round the poor woman, and made it quite evident that the lands she had succeeded to were not heriotable at all, and that Henry Anneys was a swindler.
The Coming of the Friars
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If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop.
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Novelists are perennially fascinate by great swindlers—the most adventurous of criminals.
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Most of the ￡406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year.
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When Bland was swindled by a partner in a brush factory which he had bought, his long-suffering, uncomplaining, heroine of a wife had to support the family by her writing.
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The `swindler" was Tweed, a code-name chosen by the Finn who had a dry sense of humour.
COVER STORY
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One victim was swindled out of her life savings.
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The swindler sold the house with intent to cheat her.
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Through these interviews we get a portrait of a Third World society and we also chart a big swindle that kind of illuminates how corruption does work in the Third World.
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It's estimated that patients were swindled out of some $12,750,000 from August / 96 to February / 03.
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The fact that people have been scammed for ‘hundreds of years’ doesn't justify your continuing the swindle!
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The stipend was small, his agent in Padua was a swindler, and most of the revenue from Seltz was seized by French Jesuits at Strasbourg.
Was (Not Was)
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He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle.
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The swindler broke off in the middle of his talk when he saw a policeman coming.
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I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection, or other kind of flimflammery.
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This seems a small price for a swindler to pay for enjoying a life of luxury at the expense of the small business community.
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Police in Shanghai have cracked a gang of four who swindled money using short messaging service on cell phones.
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She swindled taxpayers' cash to spend on her vanity.
The Sun
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug-taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine without batting an eyelash and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least!
2007 September 26 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The dyer was a swindler and a liar, an exceeding wicked wight, as if indeed his head-temples were hewn out of a boulder rock or fashioned of the threshold of a Jewish synagogue, nor was he ashamed of any shameful work he wrought amongst the folk.
Arabian nights. English
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The swindler tricked the old lady out of her necklace.
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If those first propositioned by the would-be predators with the prospect of 'dosh' had turned on their heel and marched away, preferably after giving the sheister swindlers 'what for', the vermin would have been discouraged, would have given up their mularkey of the perversion of reality, and we would still be living clean.
Bats, Insects and Predatory Neocons
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Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy, unscrupulous Morty, a discount electronics magnate.
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Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their sanctimonious morality.
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The state custodians had failed to discharge their responsibility to protect investors from being swindled by unscrupulous people who were determined to enrich themselves at all costs.
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Bailey, a member of the ad hoc "PhonyBusters" team, said one of the problems in prosecution is that there are so many swindles.
Tim Webster
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This scheme central the functioning of Wall Street is the definition of the traditional "confidence trick" also known as a bunko, hustle, scam or swindle.
In God We...Invest
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A former headteacher who swindled £500,000 from school funds was led from her home by paramedics after failing to appear in court to be sentenced.
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It's really all a great swindle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later he rustles cattle, reminisces about the married woman he seduced and abandoned, and deliberately shoots a woman who has just saved his life, then tries to swindle her.
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You asked me to keep you informed about that swindler who has disappeared," Karma reported.
COVER STORY
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The swindlers had roped into a number of gullible persons.
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InFugitive Hedge Fund 'scammer' Turns Himself InThe Associated PressA convicted hedge fund swindler, who set off a national manhunt when he faked his suicide to avoid reporting to prison, rode his scooter to Mass. police station and turned himself in while talking to his mother on his cell phone.
WN.com - Financial News
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Too many swindlers, fool obviously not enough.
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This was a sprawling metropolis of some several thousand people, crammed on top of each other in little twisting streets, populated by swindlers, thieves, prostitutes, magistrates, notaries and artists.
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Then we hear about widespread accounting malpractices, even in giant corporations, and start to wonder if this is not a huge conspiracy to swindle us out of our money.
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She swindled taxpayers' cash to spend on her vanity.
The Sun
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Singh allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert on the Manikpur nullah and a school.
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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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The so-called ‘phishing’ scams have developed as a popular technique for fraudsters to swindle people out of everything from PayPal accounts to ATM codes.
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If you want to make your hair stand on end, read the story of the great salad oil swindle.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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Eckoh claimed the swindle was already in place when they took over the contract in 2004.
UK Mobile Scam? - :: gia’s blog ::
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Were they just perpetrating swindles for their salaries?
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In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
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That was the case in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where scam artists swindled more than $1.5 million from their victims.
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There were many medical gamesters ready to swindle suffering victims.
Times, Sunday Times
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They swindled local businesses out of thousands of pounds.
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The idea is to make an example of a few swindlers, in order to divert attention from the pervasive thievery that has come to characterize American ‘free enterprise.’
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Q. Have you ever been on the wrong end of a swindle or scam?
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Online crimes can include multimillion-dollar swindles, online auction scams, and piracy of software and other copyrighted material.
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In the meantime, most orchid still is bold-faced charlatan and swindler.
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One company is being investigated in connection with an alleged swindle involving close to €30 million.
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The group is suspected of having swindled each customer out of about 50,000 yen in such fees.
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The histories of market manias and their ensuing panics all tell a similar story: manias give rise to frauds, manipulations and swindles and their unwinding contributes to the bursting of the bubble.
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I want this advertising stopped as a swindle.
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As a result, English-speakers say that to defraud, swindle, or cheat someone is to ‘gyp’ them.
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According to police sources, last year one man claimed to have been swindled out of US $200,000 by similar schemers.
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If you want to make your hair stand on end, read the story of the great salad oil swindle.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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This swindle is commonly known as ‘419 fraud,’ after the section of the Nigerian penal code covering cons.
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Would you cover your face after being cheated or swindled?
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The tracing of terrorists, murderers, swindlers, child-molesters and the whole motley bunch of miscreants who flit back and forth across international borders had a higher priority.
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That swindle soured a great many potential investors.
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1964 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde aka The Beautiful Swindlers 1965 Repulsion*
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Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their sanctimonious morality.
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These organizations are supposedly immune to quackery, pseudoscience, and plain swindles.
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Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy, unscrupulous Morty, a discount electronics magnate.
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The Beautiful Swindlers (1964) (segment "Grand escroc, Le")
Home Theater Forum
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Those who swindle money in banks are like parasites.
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This British crime drama tracks a group of young hoods who try to swindle local crime boss Dad Savage.
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Most of these reports were of tourists being conned or swindled.
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Second of all, deregulate -- in other words, get government snoopers out of the picture, which only lets the swindlers hide their losses for a while, until the truth becomes too plain and we the taxpayers foot the bill.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
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Discarded papers found by bag-raiders can be used to swindle millions of pounds a year from bank accounts in identity and credit fraud.
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Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually: on the racecourse of Vincennes or Sablons, behold in English curricle-and-four, wafted glorious among the principalities and rascalities, an English Dr. Dodd, (Adelung, Geschichte der Menschlichen Narrheit, para Dodd.) -- for whom also the too early gallows gapes.
The French Revolution
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He failed not simply because he was swindled, but also because he was stupid.
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A fraudster jailed after making a fortune from masterminding a timeshare swindle could be forced to pay £80 million to his victims.
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This swindle is commonly known as ‘419 fraud,’ after the section of the Nigerian penal code covering cons.
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His luck then goes from bad to worse as he is brought before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a Mexican fortune, wrecked on a desert island and separated from his true love, Cunegonde.
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Best line: Whicher once captured a swindler “who had conned a London saddler out of a gun case, an artist out of two enamel paintings, and an ornithologist out of 18 humming bird skins.”
2008 September « One-Minute Book Reviews
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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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She swindled 1000 out of the Social Security.