All 12 Uses of
swindle
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- He told them cruel stories of people who had been done to death in this "buying a home" swindle.
Chpt 4swindle = trick to cheat people out of money
- Then, too, they would swindle you with the contract—and how was a poor man to understand anything about a contract?
Chpt 4swindle = trick (to get money)
- Jurgis was sure that they had been swindled, and were ruined; and he tore his hair and cursed like a madman, swearing that he would kill the agent that very night.
Chpt 4swindled = tricked or cheated
- The house was one of a whole row that was built by a company which existed to make money by swindling poor people.
Chpt 6 *swindling = tricking or cheating
- It was all a swindle, can-painting, said the girls—you were crazy with delight because you were making twelve or fourteen dollars a week, and saving half of it; but you had to spend it all keeping alive while you were out, and so your pay was really only half what you thought.
Chpt 8swindle = trick (to get money)
- It seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes.
Chpt 9swindles = tricks or ways of cheating to get money
- And the wandering visitor might be skeptical about all the swindles, but he could not be skeptical about these, for the worker bore the evidence of them about on his own person—generally he had only to hold out his hand.
Chpt 9swindles = tricks or cheating
- With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.
Chpt 14swindles = tricks to get money by cheating
- They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.†
Chpt 17
- They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.†
Chpt 17
- It was even filthier and more crowded than the county jail; all the smaller fry out of the latter had been sifted into it—the petty thieves and swindlers, the brawlers and vagrants.†
Chpt 17
- There was the police department, and the fire and water departments, and the whole balance of the civil list, from the meanest office boy to the head of a city department; and for the horde who could find no room in these, there was the world of vice and crime, there was license to seduce, to swindle and plunder and prey.
Chpt 25swindle = cheat or trick for money
Definition:
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(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money