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Meanings of swindle in English
Usage of swindle in English
1
You have to work your way in or swindle your way in.
2
He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.
3
But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle.
4
Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle-therestaurants.
5
One man said there was a swindle somewhere - no fox terriers.
6
Instead, you tried to swindle her parents out of a million dollars.
7
There is no one in the galaxy left for you to swindle.
8
On the other hand, he did swindle me out of twenty bucks.
9
There exists, I fear, somewhere in this business a conspiracy to swindle.
10
They swindle us, and pay their priests for absolution with our money.
11
He'd never seen Pendean, of course, which made the Doria swindle possible.
12
Let us take, for example, that pathetic swindle, the Bridge of Sighs.
13
I hoped it might teach him not to swindle foreigners in future.'
14
A man will swindle or seduce who will not sell his country.
15
He wants to swindle both of us-thatis, those whom we represent.
16
Every Bavarian regiment is being sent into it, and it's a swindle.
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Swindle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common