All 6 Uses of
swindle
in
Atlas Shrugged
- "Jim," he said, "Rearden Metal seems to be a colossal kind of swindle."†
Chpt 1.3
- All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues.†
Chpt 1.5
- The entire San Sebastian swindle.†
Chpt 1.5
- You had exhausted every other form of depravity and sought a new thrill by swindling people like Jim and his friends, in order to watch them squirm.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- What sort of rotten swindle was It?†
Chpt 1.6
- To work-with no chance to rise, with your meals and your clothes and your home and your pleasure depending on any swindle, any famine, any pestilence anywhere on earth.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money