swindle
IPA: swˈɪndʌɫ
noun
- An instance of swindling.
- Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
- (chess) An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To defraud.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
- (chess) for a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw
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Examples of "swindle" in Sentences
- Who swindled against you
- He was swindled several times.
- More than 500 people have been swindled.
- After swindle, best friend remains a good buddy.
- He fled the country after the swindle was discovered.
- The meaning of Hornswoggle is to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- It's the biggest financial swindle in the history of the human race.
- However, Tomu claims that his father isn't the type to swindle the innocent.
- At the time this was considered the largest business swindle of the Nazi era.
- At the time, this was considered the largest business swindle of the Nazi era.
- Instead, the way that they accomplished the swindle is explained in this post.]
- If you look up a grift in the dictionary, its defined as a swindle - a confidence game.
- Eckoh claimed the swindle was already in place when they took over the contract in 2004.
- This plan was a swindle from the very start, and every body in the Congress and Pentagon knew it.
- The GOP candidate who compared the popular retirement program to what the dictionary defines as a swindle?
- He leveled his gaze at me and said, "Hey, hey, hey," long dramatic pause, "swindle is an awfully harsh word."
- The swindle is the implicit assumption this will raise the overall correlation between compensation and quality from approximately zero to approximately one.
- 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.
- 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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