swindling.
诈骗,诈骗罪,骗人的,骗人
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Definitions
v.verb · 有主动词
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swin·dled, swin·dling.
- ›to cheat out of money or other assets.
- ›to obtain by fraud or deceit.
v.verb · 无主动词
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swin·dled, swin·dling.
- ›to put forward plausible schemes or use unscrupulous trickery to defraud others; cheat.
n.noun · 名词
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- ›an act of swindling or a fraudulent transaction or scheme.
- ›anything deceptive; a fraud: This advertisement is a real swindle.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Flimflam felt better in the mouth than swindle, and rubberneck was a more agreeable verb than crane.
An illegal stock tip is not the same thing as a swindle; but $68 million buys a lot of basketballs and BB guns.
Another way of looking at it: How many Bernard Madoffs would it take to swindle the US taxpayer out of $1.2 trillion?
I know where it claims to be, and I know it is just one big swindle from beginning to end.
He said it was a bad swindle and he knew many others who had lost their money, too, which I thought would please you.
Bois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.
The whole thing was a cleverly-planned swindle, and unless you can get the bonds back you'll be out the money.
That is true, too,—although I somehow think Merrick is the prime mover in this swindle.