How To Use Swindler In A Sentence
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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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Novelists are perennially fascinate by great swindlers—the most adventurous of criminals.
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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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The swindler sold the house with intent to cheat her.
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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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The swindler broke off in the middle of his talk when he saw a policeman coming.
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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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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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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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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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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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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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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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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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In the meantime, most orchid still is bold-faced charlatan and swindler.
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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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1964 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde aka The Beautiful Swindlers 1965 Repulsion*
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The Beautiful Swindlers (1964) (segment "Grand escroc, Le")
Home Theater Forum
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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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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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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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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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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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The swindler broke off in the middle of his talk when he saw a policeman coming.
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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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Too many swindlers, fool obviously not enough.
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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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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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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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She was the unwitting tool of the swindlers.
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Vidocq served a lucrative apprenticeship with various ruffians, vagabonds and swindlers.
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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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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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I swear he's a swindler.
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Too many swindlers, fool obviously not enough.
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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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It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'll fix him for calling me a swindler!
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In the past, when markets were more unfettered, swindlers were flagrant.
