schwindler

Ernst Curtius, director of the excavations at Olympia and professor of ancient history at Berlin, called him a schwindler und pfuscher (swindler and con-man).

Is the Mask a Hoax? 1999

_schwindler_ (in the sense of cheat) to have been adopted from the

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

‘schwindler’, yet the notion of the ‘nebulo’, though more latent in the

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

I vill never let her marry dat goot-for-nothing schwindler and tief.”

The Fatal Boots 2006

Such a _schwindler_ like him, Mawruss, would turn right around and sue you in the courts yet for damages, and the first thing you know you are stuck for a couple thousand dollars. "

Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905

I vill never let her marry dat goot-for-nothing schwindler and tief. "

The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray 1837