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Meanings of swindle in English

Catalan
estafa
Spanish
fraude

A dishonest act.

        estafa
        Portuguese
        fraudar
        Catalan
        defraudar
        Spanish
        embaucar

        Deprive of by deceit.

            fraudar
            Usage of swindle in English
            1
            You have to work your way in or swindle your way in.
            How to make love like a porn star
            2
            He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.
            The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
            3
            But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle.
            The Gentle Grafter
            4
            Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle-therestaurants.
            Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
            5
            One man said there was a swindle somewhere - no fox terriers.
            The new yorker
            6
            Instead, you tried to swindle her parents out of a million dollars.
            The frailty of flesh
            7
            There is no one in the galaxy left for you to swindle.
            Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
            8
            On the other hand, he did swindle me out of twenty bucks.
            Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
            9
            There exists, I fear, somewhere in this business a conspiracy to swindle.
            The Good Time Coming
            10
            They swindle us, and pay their priests for absolution with our money.
            Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
            11
            He'd never seen Pendean, of course, which made the Doria swindle possible.
            The Red Redmaynes
            12
            Let us take, for example, that pathetic swindle, the Bridge of Sighs.
            Venetian Life
            13
            I hoped it might teach him not to swindle foreigners in future.'
            The corfu trilogy
            14
            A man will swindle or seduce who will not sell his country.
            The Man Who Knew Too Much
            15
            He wants to swindle both of us-thatis, those whom we represent.
            The Store Boy
            16
            Every Bavarian regiment is being sent into it, and it's a swindle.
            Now It Can Be Told
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