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Meanings of gouger in English
Synonyms
Examples for "swindler"
Examples for "swindler"
1
I am not a swindler, and I guard myself; that is all.
2
He has the stuff in him for a very clever, fashionable swindler.
3
The man was an international swindler and was wanted by the police.
4
A plan to confuse and outwit the swindler occurred to our hero.
5
The swindler was not there, nor was he on the adjoining roof.
1
You should be locked up, he told a Covid-19 scammer earlier this week.
2
The scammer, who said her name was Anne, took down the hospital's address.
3
And, suffice to say, he'd never hear from the scammer again.
4
Or maybe Teague was the scammer and Strike her gullible victim.
5
She then vows to find the scammer, played by Wilson, and exact revenge.
1
The chiseller took his favourite seat in the corner furthest from the window.
2
The chiseller therefore feigned indifference, and was silent for some minutes.
3
He'd been there as a chiseller, a spotty-faced youth and a consenting adult.
4
A long pause followed the animated discourse of the chiseller.
5
Secondly, because Carnesecchi is a better match for my daughter than a beggarly chiseller.
1
Low Key, who was a grifter from Minnesota, smiled his scarred smile.
2
He is instead a local grifter, a high-rolling and high losing gambler.
3
There's bound to be a treacherous little grifter somewhere in our midst.
4
But honestly I'm not a grifter and I can't be arsed.
5
I used to be a bit of a grifter myself.'
1
And you know he's a chiseler because he's chiseling you.
2
He no doubt meant it: he was just a petty chiseler, not a big one.
3
You know Bernie's chiseling you because he's a chiseler.
4
Kate might have been a chiseler, but she wasn't.
5
No matter what happens, I'm not going to travel with that chiseler anymore after tomorrow morning.
1
You are a defrauder and a cheat; you are nothing but a landsman, a plough-tail sugar-planter!
2
And you will go to law for it, and you will denounce the man as a defrauder.
3
And the old defrauder, who was the chief of a great band, without rancor, with effusion, presses Arrochkoa's two hands.
4
A man that is a thief, a cheater, a defrauder, will yet be faithful to him that will commit a charge to him to keep.
5
The Revenue Commissioners is to introduce a new computer system that will alert it to possible tax defrauders.
Usage of gouger in English
1
There is never a nickel that gets by that old gouger.
2
A gouger is one who stabs with his thumb.
3
The gouger is actor Colin Farrell, last seen by most people persecuting Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report.
4
Labor laws being what they are in Europe these days, it is apparently no longer cost-effective to employ an eye-gouger.
5
The three Englishmen, Gouger, Laird, and Rogers, were called and examined.
6
Pharmaceutical companies are generally seen as well to use the phrase price gougers basically.
7
Nor had the Gouger borne him any ill-will for it.
8
He only wears shades in winter - "the gougers steal them from me in the summer".
9
Price-gougers can be fined $1,000 per incident and up to $25,000 per day.
10
City of merchants -sorry, I mean thieves, gougers, frauds and those who fatten themselves on the misery of others.
11
Amazon called the price-gougers "bad actors." "There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," a spokesman said in a statement.
12
Milfort gives a very amusing account of the "Anglo-Américains d'une espèce particulière," whom he calls "crakeurs ou gaugeurs," (crackers or gougers).
13
Mr. Gouger, a young merchant residing at Ava, was then with us, and had much more reason to fear than the rest of us.
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