swindler

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Handel was called a swindler, a drunkard, and a blasphemer, to whom Scripture even was not sacred.

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  1. One who swindles; one who defrauds or makes a practice of defrauding others; a cheat; a rogue. After that you turned swindler, and got out of gaol by an act for the relief of insolvent debtors. Foote, The Capuchin, ii.

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  • Dad (DeVito) is an oily used-car swindler, and her mother (Rhea Perlman) is a bingo-obsessed bubblehead. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • But I surmised that it might have been the sullenness of a man unconscious of guilt and standing at bay to fight his "persecutors," as he called them; or else the fear of a softer emotion weakening his defiant attitude; perhaps, even, it was a self-denying ordinance, in order to spare the girl the sight of her father in the dock, accused of cheating, sentenced as a swindler--proving the possession of a certain moral delicacy Mrs Fyne didn't know what to think. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts
  • It is no compliment to a nation to receive the congratulations of men who assert not only people-king, but people-God; and those Americans who are delighted with them are worse enemies to the American democracy than ever were Jefferson Davis and his fellow conspirators, and more contemptible, as the swindler is more contemptible than the highwayman But it is probable the humanitarians have reckoned without their host. —  The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
  • The fault was in stigmatising a young man as a swindler, and the punishment awarded to the error is intended to point out the moral, that such an abuse of power should be severely visited. —  Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • Handel was called a swindler, a drunkard, and a blasphemer, to whom Scripture even was not sacred. —  The Great German Composers
 

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  1. from German schwindler (= Dutch zwendelaar), an extravagant projector, a swindler, from schwindeln, be dizzy, act thoughtlessly, cheat, freq. of schwinden, decay, sink, vanish, fall, = Anglo-Saxon swindan, languish. Cf. swim.
 

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