All 8 Uses of
swindle
in
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- You're going to ask why a billionaire should go to the trouble of swindling a trifling fifty million.
Chpt 1.1swindling = tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- Well, put it this way: why would he risk his own and his company's good name on such a blatant swindle?†
Chpt 1.1
- It wasn't so obviously a swindle given that the AIA board, the bankers, the government, and Parliament's auditors all approved Wennerström's accounting without a single dissenting vote.†
Chpt 1.1
- It began for him when he discovered how the swindling of a client had been accomplished through creative bookkeeping.
Chpt 1.2swindling = tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- He could never be sure whether Lindberg had told him the details of Wennerström's swindle simply for the sake of a good story between toasts in the privacy of his boat's cabin or whether he had really wanted the story to be made public.†
Chpt 1.3
- I can prove that he's a swindler.
Chpt 1.6 *swindler = someone who tricks others out of money
- She's spreading stories that you're a swindler who duped Henrik into hiring you, and that you got him so worked up that he had a heart attack.
Chpt 3.20swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
- They're all part of a family that would swindle you if they had the chance.†
Chpt 3.23
Definitions:
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(1)
(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)