Definition of swindle in English:

swindle

verbˈswɪnd(ə)lˈswɪndl

[with object]

1Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions.
诈取；骗取
a businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds
一个商人诈取了投资者们数百万英镑。
Example sentencesExamples
- I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
- If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop.
- Most victims were swindled into paying €3,000 or more.
- I felt sorry for those poor desperate people being swindled in such a way.
- The group is suspected of having swindled each customer out of about 50,000 yen in such fees.
- In fact, he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate.
- She swindled eight people out of $111,000 in cash and jewelry before she was stopped.
- 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.
- While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people, for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites.
- Sometimes, the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees.
- 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.
- A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays.
- In 1989 he pleaded guilty to 55 counts of fraud, allegedly swindling elderly victims in Virginia and Tennessee out of around $1.25 million.
- 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
- For example, if I find a way of legally swindling you out of a lot of money, I cannot claim that my action is morally acceptable just because it is legal.
- It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless, as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money.
- The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds.
- It's estimated that patients were swindled out of some $12,750,000 from August / 96 to February / 03.
- He failed not simply because he was swindled, but also because he was stupid.
- I admit I live by my wits a lot, but I don't use them to swindle people.
1. 1.1 Obtain (money) fraudulently.
  诈骗（钱财）
  he was said to have swindled £62.5 million from the state-owned cement industry
  据说他从国有水泥行业诈取了6，250万英镑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy (specifically swindling money from wealthy people using a disguise).
  He is also facing charges of embezzling a compensation fund for war victims and is being investigated for swindling a veterans' trust fund.
  Police in Shanghai have cracked a gang of four who swindled money using short messaging service on cell phones.
  Those who swindle money in banks are like parasites.
  That was the case in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where scam artists swindled more than $1.5 million from their victims.
  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.
  In 2001, a few newspapers carried stories on local securities firms swindling money from investors but soon all fell silent.
  This bizarre social phenomenon comes to light with the recent arrest of a con man for swindling around 100 million won from some 150 people.
  He allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert and a school.
  He was sentenced by a state judge to seven and a half years for swindling $650 million from investors who bought stock through his New York brokerage.
  This performance of theirs was just a ploy to swindle a few dollars out of travelers and adventurers and nothing more.
  In both cases he's arguably signed contracts with the intention to swindle money.
  Discarded papers found by bag-raiders can be used to swindle millions of pounds a year from bank accounts in identity and credit fraud.
  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’.
  Synonyms
  defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, rook, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed
  fool, take advantage of, mislead, delude, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle, string along
  embezzle
  informal do, con, sting, diddle, fiddle, swizzle, swizz, rip off, take for a ride, pull a fast one on, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put one over on, sell a pup to, take to the cleaners, bilk, gull, finagle, gazump
  North American informal stiff, euchre, bunco, hornswoggle
  archaic cozen, sharp
  rare mulct

nounˈswɪnd(ə)lˈswɪndl

A fraudulent scheme or action.
骗局；欺诈行为
he is mixed up in a £10 million insurance swindle
他卷入了一桩1，000万英镑的保险诈骗案中。
Example sentencesExamples
- One company is being investigated in connection with an alleged swindle involving close to €30 million.
- They are accomplices of the dealer - a part of the swindle.
- It's a total scam, swindle, and fake, but no one in our consumer agencies has any intention of doing anything about it.
- A fraudster jailed after making a fortune from masterminding a timeshare swindle could be forced to pay £80 million to his victims.
- But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated.
- Were they just perpetrating swindles for their salaries?
- Online crimes can include multimillion-dollar swindles, online auction scams, and piracy of software and other copyrighted material.
- Indeed, both men led famous swindles on the citizens they governed.
- The inability of the regulators to prevent scams and swindles has also brought the private pension industry into disrepute.
- Q. Have you ever been on the wrong end of a swindle or scam?
- When high street banks offer 0.1% annual interest, how can anyone offer nearly 500 times as much without straying into frauds or swindles?
- He will get fatter and nervier, simply because our system turns a blind eye to such a swindle.
- It was also part of a stock swindle involving hundreds of millions of dollars on the Montreal Stock Exchange.
- It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial.
- Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation.
- It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam.
- I want this advertising stopped as a swindle.
- These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result.
- The fact that people have been scammed for ‘hundreds of years’ doesn't justify your continuing the swindle!
- To protect yourself against any of these possible swindles you need to be prudent in your investment decisions.
Synonyms
fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice
ruse, dodge, racket, wile
informal con trick, con, sting, diddle, rip-off, fiddle, flimflam, swizzle, swizz
North American informal bunco

Derivatives

swindler

nounˈswɪndləˈswɪndlər

A person who uses deception to deprive someone of money or possessions.
诈取；骗取
he used his charm to become a small-time swindler
Synonyms
fraudster, fraud, confidence trickster, confidence man, cheat, trickster, rogue, mountebank, exploiter, pretender, charlatan, sham, impostor, hoaxer, embezzler
informal con man, con artist, shark, sharp, hustler, bilker, flimflam man, phoney, chiseller, crook, quack, bunco artist
Example sentencesExamples
- Not even the police care too much about what's going on in these streets’ the old man chuckled, ‘this is where all the swindlers and thieves hang out.’
- Unfortunately, swindlers also exploited the tragedy to make money over the Internet.
- What's the appeal to you of property criminals such as hucksters, card cheats, swindlers, bank robbers, and con men?

Origin

Late 18th century: back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler 'extravagant maker of schemes, swindler', from schwindeln 'be giddy', also 'tell lies'.

Rhymes

brindle, dwindle, kindle, spindle, Tyndale

Definition of swindle in US English:

swindle

verbˈswindlˈswɪndl

[with object]

1Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions.
诈取；骗取
a businessman swindled investors out of millions of dollars
一个商人诈取了投资者们数百万英镑。
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- He failed not simply because he was swindled, but also because he was stupid.
- Most victims were swindled into paying €3,000 or more.
- In fact, he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate.
- She swindled eight people out of $111,000 in cash and jewelry before she was stopped.
- It's estimated that patients were swindled out of some $12,750,000 from August / 96 to February / 03.
- While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people, for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites.
- 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
- Sometimes, the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees.
- A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays.
- 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.
- If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop.
- The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds.
- I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
- It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless, as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money.
- I felt sorry for those poor desperate people being swindled in such a way.
- The group is suspected of having swindled each customer out of about 50,000 yen in such fees.
- In 1989 he pleaded guilty to 55 counts of fraud, allegedly swindling elderly victims in Virginia and Tennessee out of around $1.25 million.
- I admit I live by my wits a lot, but I don't use them to swindle people.
- For example, if I find a way of legally swindling you out of a lot of money, I cannot claim that my action is morally acceptable just because it is legal.
1. 1.1 Obtain (money) fraudulently.
  诈骗（钱财）
  he was said to have swindled $62.5 million from the pension fund
  据说他从国有水泥行业诈取了6，250万英镑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  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.
  That was the case in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where scam artists swindled more than $1.5 million from their victims.
  He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy (specifically swindling money from wealthy people using a disguise).
  He is also facing charges of embezzling a compensation fund for war victims and is being investigated for swindling a veterans' trust fund.
  In 2001, a few newspapers carried stories on local securities firms swindling money from investors but soon all fell silent.
  He was sentenced by a state judge to seven and a half years for swindling $650 million from investors who bought stock through his New York brokerage.
  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’.
  This performance of theirs was just a ploy to swindle a few dollars out of travelers and adventurers and nothing more.
  Discarded papers found by bag-raiders can be used to swindle millions of pounds a year from bank accounts in identity and credit fraud.
  Those who swindle money in banks are like parasites.
  He allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert and a school.
  In both cases he's arguably signed contracts with the intention to swindle money.
  Police in Shanghai have cracked a gang of four who swindled money using short messaging service on cell phones.
  This bizarre social phenomenon comes to light with the recent arrest of a con man for swindling around 100 million won from some 150 people.
  Synonyms
  defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed

nounˈswindlˈswɪndl

A fraudulent scheme or action.
骗局；欺诈行为
he is mixed up in a $10 million insurance swindle
他卷入了一桩1，000万英镑的保险诈骗案中。
Example sentencesExamples
- A fraudster jailed after making a fortune from masterminding a timeshare swindle could be forced to pay £80 million to his victims.
- Indeed, both men led famous swindles on the citizens they governed.
- But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated.
- These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result.
- The inability of the regulators to prevent scams and swindles has also brought the private pension industry into disrepute.
- It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial.
- I want this advertising stopped as a swindle.
- The fact that people have been scammed for ‘hundreds of years’ doesn't justify your continuing the swindle!
- Were they just perpetrating swindles for their salaries?
- They are accomplices of the dealer - a part of the swindle.
- To protect yourself against any of these possible swindles you need to be prudent in your investment decisions.
- Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation.
- Online crimes can include multimillion-dollar swindles, online auction scams, and piracy of software and other copyrighted material.
- When high street banks offer 0.1% annual interest, how can anyone offer nearly 500 times as much without straying into frauds or swindles?
- One company is being investigated in connection with an alleged swindle involving close to €30 million.
- It was also part of a stock swindle involving hundreds of millions of dollars on the Montreal Stock Exchange.
- Q. Have you ever been on the wrong end of a swindle or scam?
- It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam.
- He will get fatter and nervier, simply because our system turns a blind eye to such a swindle.
- It's a total scam, swindle, and fake, but no one in our consumer agencies has any intention of doing anything about it.
Synonyms
fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice

Origin

Late 18th century: back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler ‘extravagant maker of schemes, swindler’, from schwindeln ‘be giddy’, also ‘tell lies’.

词汇	swindle
释义	Definition of swindle in English: swindle verbˈswɪnd(ə)lˈswɪndl [with object] 1Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions. 诈取；骗取 a businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds 一个商人诈取了投资者们数百万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash. If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop. Most victims were swindled into paying €3,000 or more. I felt sorry for those poor desperate people being swindled in such a way. The group is suspected of having swindled each customer out of about 50,000 yen in such fees. In fact, he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate. She swindled eight people out of $111,000 in cash and jewelry before she was stopped. 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. While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people, for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites. Sometimes, the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees. 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. A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays. In 1989 he pleaded guilty to 55 counts of fraud, allegedly swindling elderly victims in Virginia and Tennessee out of around $1.25 million. 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 For example, if I find a way of legally swindling you out of a lot of money, I cannot claim that my action is morally acceptable just because it is legal. It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless, as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money. The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds. It's estimated that patients were swindled out of some $12,750,000 from August / 96 to February / 03. He failed not simply because he was swindled, but also because he was stupid. I admit I live by my wits a lot, but I don't use them to swindle people. 1.1 Obtain (money) fraudulently. 诈骗（钱财） he was said to have swindled £62.5 million from the state-owned cement industry 据说他从国有水泥行业诈取了6，250万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy (specifically swindling money from wealthy people using a disguise). He is also facing charges of embezzling a compensation fund for war victims and is being investigated for swindling a veterans' trust fund. Police in Shanghai have cracked a gang of four who swindled money using short messaging service on cell phones. Those who swindle money in banks are like parasites. That was the case in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where scam artists swindled more than $1.5 million from their victims. 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. In 2001, a few newspapers carried stories on local securities firms swindling money from investors but soon all fell silent. This bizarre social phenomenon comes to light with the recent arrest of a con man for swindling around 100 million won from some 150 people. He allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert and a school. He was sentenced by a state judge to seven and a half years for swindling $650 million from investors who bought stock through his New York brokerage. This performance of theirs was just a ploy to swindle a few dollars out of travelers and adventurers and nothing more. In both cases he's arguably signed contracts with the intention to swindle money. Discarded papers found by bag-raiders can be used to swindle millions of pounds a year from bank accounts in identity and credit fraud. 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’. Synonyms defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, rook, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed fool, take advantage of, mislead, delude, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle, string along embezzle informal do, con, sting, diddle, fiddle, swizzle, swizz, rip off, take for a ride, pull a fast one on, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put one over on, sell a pup to, take to the cleaners, bilk, gull, finagle, gazump North American informal stiff, euchre, bunco, hornswoggle archaic cozen, sharp rare mulct nounˈswɪnd(ə)lˈswɪndl A fraudulent scheme or action. 骗局；欺诈行为 he is mixed up in a £10 million insurance swindle 他卷入了一桩1，000万英镑的保险诈骗案中。 Example sentencesExamples One company is being investigated in connection with an alleged swindle involving close to €30 million. They are accomplices of the dealer - a part of the swindle. It's a total scam, swindle, and fake, but no one in our consumer agencies has any intention of doing anything about it. A fraudster jailed after making a fortune from masterminding a timeshare swindle could be forced to pay £80 million to his victims. But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated. Were they just perpetrating swindles for their salaries? Online crimes can include multimillion-dollar swindles, online auction scams, and piracy of software and other copyrighted material. Indeed, both men led famous swindles on the citizens they governed. The inability of the regulators to prevent scams and swindles has also brought the private pension industry into disrepute. Q. Have you ever been on the wrong end of a swindle or scam? When high street banks offer 0.1% annual interest, how can anyone offer nearly 500 times as much without straying into frauds or swindles? He will get fatter and nervier, simply because our system turns a blind eye to such a swindle. It was also part of a stock swindle involving hundreds of millions of dollars on the Montreal Stock Exchange. It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial. Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation. It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam. I want this advertising stopped as a swindle. These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result. The fact that people have been scammed for ‘hundreds of years’ doesn't justify your continuing the swindle! To protect yourself against any of these possible swindles you need to be prudent in your investment decisions. Synonyms fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice ruse, dodge, racket, wile informal con trick, con, sting, diddle, rip-off, fiddle, flimflam, swizzle, swizz North American informal bunco Derivatives swindler nounˈswɪndləˈswɪndlər A person who uses deception to deprive someone of money or possessions. 诈取；骗取 he used his charm to become a small-time swindler Synonyms fraudster, fraud, confidence trickster, confidence man, cheat, trickster, rogue, mountebank, exploiter, pretender, charlatan, sham, impostor, hoaxer, embezzler informal con man, con artist, shark, sharp, hustler, bilker, flimflam man, phoney, chiseller, crook, quack, bunco artist Example sentencesExamples Not even the police care too much about what's going on in these streets’ the old man chuckled, ‘this is where all the swindlers and thieves hang out.’ Unfortunately, swindlers also exploited the tragedy to make money over the Internet. What's the appeal to you of property criminals such as hucksters, card cheats, swindlers, bank robbers, and con men? Origin Late 18th century: back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler 'extravagant maker of schemes, swindler', from schwindeln 'be giddy', also 'tell lies'. Rhymes brindle, dwindle, kindle, spindle, Tyndale Definition of swindle in US English: swindle verbˈswindlˈswɪndl [with object] 1Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions. 诈取；骗取 a businessman swindled investors out of millions of dollars 一个商人诈取了投资者们数百万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples 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. He failed not simply because he was swindled, but also because he was stupid. Most victims were swindled into paying €3,000 or more. In fact, he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate. She swindled eight people out of $111,000 in cash and jewelry before she was stopped. It's estimated that patients were swindled out of some $12,750,000 from August / 96 to February / 03. While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people, for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites. 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 Sometimes, the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees. A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays. 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. If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop. The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds. I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash. It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless, as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money. I felt sorry for those poor desperate people being swindled in such a way. The group is suspected of having swindled each customer out of about 50,000 yen in such fees. In 1989 he pleaded guilty to 55 counts of fraud, allegedly swindling elderly victims in Virginia and Tennessee out of around $1.25 million. I admit I live by my wits a lot, but I don't use them to swindle people. For example, if I find a way of legally swindling you out of a lot of money, I cannot claim that my action is morally acceptable just because it is legal. 1.1 Obtain (money) fraudulently. 诈骗（钱财） he was said to have swindled $62.5 million from the pension fund 据说他从国有水泥行业诈取了6，250万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples 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. That was the case in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where scam artists swindled more than $1.5 million from their victims. He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy (specifically swindling money from wealthy people using a disguise). He is also facing charges of embezzling a compensation fund for war victims and is being investigated for swindling a veterans' trust fund. In 2001, a few newspapers carried stories on local securities firms swindling money from investors but soon all fell silent. He was sentenced by a state judge to seven and a half years for swindling $650 million from investors who bought stock through his New York brokerage. 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’. This performance of theirs was just a ploy to swindle a few dollars out of travelers and adventurers and nothing more. Discarded papers found by bag-raiders can be used to swindle millions of pounds a year from bank accounts in identity and credit fraud. Those who swindle money in banks are like parasites. He allegedly swindled funds meant for building a culvert and a school. In both cases he's arguably signed contracts with the intention to swindle money. Police in Shanghai have cracked a gang of four who swindled money using short messaging service on cell phones. This bizarre social phenomenon comes to light with the recent arrest of a con man for swindling around 100 million won from some 150 people. Synonyms defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed nounˈswindlˈswɪndl A fraudulent scheme or action. 骗局；欺诈行为 he is mixed up in a $10 million insurance swindle 他卷入了一桩1，000万英镑的保险诈骗案中。 Example sentencesExamples A fraudster jailed after making a fortune from masterminding a timeshare swindle could be forced to pay £80 million to his victims. Indeed, both men led famous swindles on the citizens they governed. But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated. These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result. The inability of the regulators to prevent scams and swindles has also brought the private pension industry into disrepute. It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial. I want this advertising stopped as a swindle. The fact that people have been scammed for ‘hundreds of years’ doesn't justify your continuing the swindle! Were they just perpetrating swindles for their salaries? They are accomplices of the dealer - a part of the swindle. To protect yourself against any of these possible swindles you need to be prudent in your investment decisions. Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation. Online crimes can include multimillion-dollar swindles, online auction scams, and piracy of software and other copyrighted material. When high street banks offer 0.1% annual interest, how can anyone offer nearly 500 times as much without straying into frauds or swindles? One company is being investigated in connection with an alleged swindle involving close to €30 million. It was also part of a stock swindle involving hundreds of millions of dollars on the Montreal Stock Exchange. Q. Have you ever been on the wrong end of a swindle or scam? It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam. He will get fatter and nervier, simply because our system turns a blind eye to such a swindle. It's a total scam, swindle, and fake, but no one in our consumer agencies has any intention of doing anything about it. Synonyms fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice Origin Late 18th century: back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler ‘extravagant maker of schemes, swindler’, from schwindeln ‘be giddy’, also ‘tell lies’.
随便看	with a posh accent with application with apprehension/trepidation with approbation with a ring of truth with a rod of iron with a screw loose with a sixth sense with as much vigour as possible with a sneer with a soft spot for with assurance with a steady pulse with a struggle with a temperature with a tendency with a tendency to get with a vengeance with a vengeance with a view to with a view to with a will with a will with a will of one's own with a yen