All 5 Uses of
swindle
in
Great Expectations
- "It's five-and-twenty pound, Mum," echoed that basest of swindlers, Pumblechook, rising to shake hands with her; "and it's no more than your merits (as I said when my opinion was asked), and I wish you joy of the money!"†
Chpt 13
- That swindling Pumblechook, exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him…†
Chpt 13
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.†
Chpt 28
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.†
Chpt 28
- Compeyson's business was the swindling, handwriting forging, stolen bank-note passing, and such-like.†
Chpt 42 *
Definition:
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(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money