Sample Sentences for
swindle
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    As a last resort he had recourse to all the herbs that the Indians hawked in the public market and to all the magical specifics and Oriental potions sold in the Arcade of the Scribes, but by the time he realized that he had been swindled, he already had the tonsure of a saint.  (source)
    swindled = cheated or tricked
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    The problems ranged from those arrested to those assaulted, from Canadians who were swindled to those doing the swindling.  (source)
    swindling = tricked or cheated out of money
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    Come out and meet the man you've swindled.  (source)
    swindled = tricking or cheating someone to get money
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    He told them cruel stories of people who had been done to death in this "buying a home" swindle.  (source)
    swindle = trick to cheat people out of money
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    Still, his career choice didn't change until his father was swindled by a bogus financial planner out of some $40,000, right before Jeremy graduated.  (source)
    swindled = tricked
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    Bekkar's much smaller and usually filled with swindling Mercators and Plebeian drunks.†  (source)
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    I can prove that he's a swindler.  (source)
    swindler = someone who tricks others out of money
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    The routine was well practiced and expensive and riddled with swindlers.†  (source)
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    They got rich by all kinds of swindles and by shooting down people, and all that jazz.†  (source)
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    But, at least, he's honest and won't swindle me.†  (source)
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    It was said Jefferson had swindled clients as a young lawyer.  (source)
    swindled = tricked (for money)
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    Anyone can help swindling.†  (source)
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    Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger.†  (source)
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