All 5 Uses of
swindle
in
Gone with the Wind
- Made a lot of money, Will said, swindling the niggers or the government, one or tuther, or confiscating folks' cotton and swearing it was Confederate government cotton.†
Chpt 4.32
- One poor white who operated a mill on the Decatur road did try to fight Scarlett with her own weapons, saying openly that she was a liar and a swindler.†
Chpt 4.38
- But, at least, he's honest and won't swindle me.†
Chpt 4.38 *
- He listened to her moans about lost customers and bad debts, the swindling ways of Mr. Johnson and the incompetency of Hugh.†
Chpt 4.38
- Among them were the Gelerts who had lived in a dozen different states and who apparently had left each one hastily upon detection of their swindling schemes; the Conningtons whose connection with the Freedmen's Bureau in a distant state had been highly lucrative at the expense of the ignorant blacks they were supposed to protect; the Deals who had sold "cardboard" shoes to the Confederate government until it became necessary for them to spend the last year of the war in Europe; theā¦†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money