swindling

Speech parts

1. swindling - Noun

2. swindling - Verb

Meaning

of Swindle

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Examples

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. George Bernard Shaw

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. John Kenneth Galbraith

I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe ... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit. Jean-Baptiste Say

A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant. French Proverb

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