SWINDLER in a Sentence

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Yes, I know them all, and every one of them is a swindler, and the town a nest of rascals engaged in robbing one another.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWINDLER
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swindler
 n.  cheat; one who defrauds or makes practice of defrauding others
Classic Sentence:
1  Yes, I know them all, and every one of them is a swindler, and the town a nest of rascals engaged in robbing one another.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  I have over-reached one swindler after another.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
3  Ulysses," replied Alcinous, "not one of us who sees you has any idea that you are a charlatan or a swindler.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XI
4  One poor white who operated a mill on the Decatur road did try to fight Scarlett with her own weapons, saying openly that she was a liar and a swindler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  In addition, he was a great swindler.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  We've seen swindlers like him before.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
7  And as for cheating, I venture to inform you that there are no swindlers like them in the whole of creation.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
8  All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
9  They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  She was gullible and trusting, an easy victim for the first swindler who came along.
2  She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
3  Too many swindlers, fool obviously not enough.
4  The swindlers had roped into a number of gullible persons.