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Definition of Swindler
1. Noun. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
Specialized synonyms: Card Shark, Card Sharp, Card Sharper, Cardsharp, Cardsharper, Sharper, Sharpie, Sharpy, Clip Artist, Con Artist, Con Man, Confidence Man, Welcher, Welsher
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Derivative terms: Chisel, Chisel, Chisel, Chisel, Defraud, Gouge, Scam, Swindle
Definition of Swindler
1. n. One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Definition of Swindler
1. Noun. A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swindler
1. one that swindles [n -S] - See also: swindles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swindler
Literary usage of Swindler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"CHAPTER XLIV STOCK SALESMEN The Work of the swindler Predisposed by the natural
human ... The swindler, as stated in the preceding chapter, was the first to ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"__ swindler, a cheat. (G.) XVIII cent. ... an extravagant projector, a swindler.
— G. schwindeln, to be dizzy, act thoughtlessly. — G. schwinden, to decay, ..."
3. The Cost of Something for Nothing by John Peter Altgeld (1904)
"THE swindler AND THE SNEAK-THIEF The swindler who preys on the simple and confiding
may be shrewd and successful in getting other people's property without ..."
4. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"... of good family and fortune) and her first seducer, an Italian swindler, of
the name of Leone Leoni. The whole volume is a succession of ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"became from that time a byword for swindler and blackleg. When Greek joint Greek,
then it the tug of war. When two men or armies of undoubted courage tight, ..."
6. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"CHAPTER XLIV STOCK SALESMEN The Work of the swindler Predisposed by the natural
human ... The swindler, as stated in the preceding chapter, was the first to ..."
7. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"__ swindler, a cheat. (G.) XVIII cent. ... an extravagant projector, a swindler.
— G. schwindeln, to be dizzy, act thoughtlessly. — G. schwinden, to decay, ..."
8. The Cost of Something for Nothing by John Peter Altgeld (1904)
"THE swindler AND THE SNEAK-THIEF The swindler who preys on the simple and confiding
may be shrewd and successful in getting other people's property without ..."
9. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"... of good family and fortune) and her first seducer, an Italian swindler, of
the name of Leone Leoni. The whole volume is a succession of ..."
10. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"became from that time a byword for swindler and blackleg. When Greek joint Greek,
then it the tug of war. When two men or armies of undoubted courage tight, ..."
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