All 9 Uses of
swindle
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other.†
Chpt 1 *
- Is that Canada swindle case on today?†
Chpt 7
- Swindle in it somewhere.†
Chpt 8
- —How did that Canada swindle case go off?†
Chpt 12
- Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too.†
Chpt 12swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
- —Swindling the peasants, says the citizen, and the poor of Ireland.†
Chpt 12swindling = tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.†
Chpt 12
- Emigration Swindle.†
Chpt 16
- at him outside Westland row chapel where does their great intelligence come in Id like to know grey matter they have it all in their tail if you ask me those country gougers up in the City Arms intelligence they had a damn sight less than the bulls and cows they were selling the meat and the coalmans bell that noisy bugger trying to swindle me with the wrong bill he took out of his hat what a pair of paws and pots and pans and kettles to mend any broken bottles for a poor man today and no visitors or post ever except his cheques or some advertisement like that wonderworker they sent him addressed dear Madam only his letter and the card from Milly this morning see she wrote a lette†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)