All 13 Uses
swindle
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Vanity Fair
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- The fact is, the old lady believed Rebecca to be the meekest creature in the world, so admirably, on the occasions when her father brought her to Chiswick, used Rebecca to perform the part of the ingenue; and only a year before the arrangement by which Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll—which was, by the way, the confiscated property of Miss Swindle, discovered surreptitiously nursing it in school-hours.†
Chpt 2
- And it's to this man's son—this scoundrel, gambler, swindler, murderer of a Rawdon Crawley, that Matilda leaves the bulk of her money.†
Chpt 11swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
- It was quite enough to have been swindled by the father.†
Chpt 18 *swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
- "I'd enlist myself, by—; but I'm a broken old man—ruined by that damned scoundrel—and by a parcel of swindling thieves in this country whom I made, sir, and who are rolling in their carriages now," he added, with a break in his voice.†
Chpt 20swindling = tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter?†
Chpt 24
- Time was you called him better names than rogue and swindler.†
Chpt 24swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
- The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn.†
Chpt 26
- In fact, our friends may be said to have been among the first of that brood of hardy English adventurers who have subsequently invaded the Continent and swindled in all the capitals of Europe.†
Chpt 36swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
- And whereas there is now hardly a town of France or Italy in which you shall not see some noble countryman of our own, with that happy swagger and insolence of demeanour which we carry everywhere, swindling inn-landlords, passing fictitious cheques upon credulous bankers, robbing coach-makers of their carriages, goldsmiths of their trinkets, easy travellers of their money at cards, even public libraries of their books—thirty years ago you needed but to be a Milor Anglais, travelling in a private carriage, and credit was at your hand wherever you chose to seek it, and gentlemen, instead of cheating, were cheated.†
Chpt 36swindling = tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- —how many great noblemen rob their petty tradesmen, condescend to swindle their poor retainers out of wretched little sums and cheat for a few shillings?†
Chpt 37
- Fred, whose hopes had been raised when George had been disinherited, thought himself infamously swindled by the old merchant, and for some time made as if he would break off the match altogether.†
Chpt 42swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
- You're no better than swindlers, both on you.†
Chpt 55
- They people the debtors' prisons—they drink and swagger—they fight and brawl—they run away without paying—they have duels with French and German officers—they cheat Mr. Spooney at ecarte—they get the money and drive off to Baden in magnificent britzkas—they try their infallible martingale and lurk about the tables with empty pockets, shabby bullies, penniless bucks, until they can swindle a Jew banker with a sham bill of exchange, or find another Mr. Spooney to rob.†
Chpt 64
Definitions:
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(1)
(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)