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How to use swindler in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Swindler means a person who swindles, cheats or defrauds. Example: “He's a liar, swindler, and hypocrite—a scoundrel of the first water.”

Examples of swindler by meaning

nounA person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.

  • But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.1908, The Scrap Book: Second Section, volume V, page 637
  • In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times

More sentences with swindler

  • He's a liar, swindler, and hypocrite—a scoundrel of the first water.From the entry first water
  • Of course he disappointed you. The man is nothing less than a fraud and a swindler.From the entry nothing less than
  • Of course he disappointed you. The man is nothing more than a fraud and a swindler.From the entry nothing more than
  • Fortune-tellers were derided as swindlers, their so-called services little better than a form of larceny.2015, A Piper, “Women's work: The professionalisation and policing of fortune-telling in Australia”, in Labour History: A Journal of…. From the entry cold read
  • Despite this, he went to a meeting to criticize swindlers like Liu Shao-chi.1972 March 7 [1972 March 5], “Party Promotes Criticism Campaign in Shansi Region”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I…. From the entry Kolan
  • To end my days in ignominy, trapped between a bitter old bureaucrat and a bankful of treacherous swindlers?2015, Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry bankful
  • The show follows Lawrence Jameson, a regular Rico Suave, and Freddy Benson, a small-time swindler who tugs at ladies' heart.December 2007, Indianapolis Monthly, "Show Stealers", pp. 194, ISSN 0899-0328. From the entry Rico Suave
  • Some of these swindlers have been caught.1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 780. From the entry illiterate
  • Perhaps the greatest risk is the gumagumas — the swindlers, thieves and rapists who stalk the vulnerable as they wander in the bush.2009 January 24, Barry Bearak, “Desperate Children Flee Zimbabwe, for Lives Just as Bleak”, in New York Times. From the entry gumaguma
  • On the death of Alexander, her husband, Hermione, a chatelaine, discovers that he was a bigam on the one hand, and a swindler on the other.2024, Criticker Films & TV, A notre regrettable époux. From the entry bigam
  • Of horse players and the ragged army of grifters, touts and downright swindlers who attach themselves to the noble sport of kings there is no end of stories.1953, Mac Davis, Say it Ain't So!, page 149. From the entry chalk eater

Meaning of swindler

  1. noun A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.

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Questions about swindler in a sentence

How do you use swindler in a sentence?
Swindler is used as a noun. For example: “He's a liar, swindler, and hypocrite—a scoundrel of the first water.”
What is a short sentence with swindler?
“Some of these swindlers have been caught.”
What does swindler mean?
Swindler means a person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.

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