All 12 Uses
swindle
in
The Adventures of Augie March
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- " She called Kotzie "the baked apple"; she called Mrs. Kreindl "the secret goose," Lubin "the shoemaker's son," the dentist "the butcher," the butcher "the timid swindler.†
Chpt 1swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
- And at this very time we were engaged in a swindle in Deever's neighborhood department store, where we were Christmas extras in the toy department, Santa Claus's helpers, in elves' costumes, with painted faces.†
Chpt 4
- And Einhorn, away back, the length of the office, slit open his letters, made notes for replies, dipped into his files or passed things on for me to check on—me, the often stumped aide, trying to get straight what he was up to in his numerous small swindles.†
Chpt 5swindles = tricks or cheats someone -- usually to get money
- " And also, "I don't ask you to take me for your model either," too well realizing the contradiction, that I knew about his multifarious swindles.†
Chpt 7
- I took closer interest in his swindles than when I had been not much more than house-boy and the Einhorn business was too vast for me to understand.†
Chpt 7 *
- But Mildred wouldn't accept lying down and dying, though she never recovered from looking near middle-aged and dark and sore, as-a woman forced to sit, or someone who has missed out on children, or whom men have swindled.†
Chpt 9swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
- She shot it off in my face that I wasn't mad enough about abominations or aware enough of them, didn't know how many graves were underneath my feet, was lacking in disgust, wasn't hard enough against horrors or wrathful about swindles.†
Chpt 11swindles = tricks or cheats someone -- usually to get money
- The worst of which swindles was in getting terrible payment for what should be a loving exchange of bodies and the foundation of all the true things of life.†
Chpt 11
- And if nature made us live and do as worms and beetles do, to escape the ichneumon fly and swindle other enemies by mimicry, and so forth—well, all right!†
Chpt 17
- It was really an attempted swindle.†
Chpt 22
- So what does she want this extra swindle for?†
Chpt 24
- He was a Rumania-box type of swindler, where you put in a buck and it comes out a fiver.†
Chpt 25swindler = someone who tricks or cheats another -- usually to get money
Definitions:
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(1)
(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)