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Definition of Swindlers
1. swindler [n] - See also: swindler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swindlers
Literary usage of Swindlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"The different classes of Cheats and swindlers, and the various tricks and devices
... swindlers who open shops as Auctioneers.—4th. swindlers who pretend to ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... (swindlers), one marked by thieves or swindlers as easy to dupe or rob. "
Buy a watch-ticket, John?" cry one did— " Will you bid ? ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"MORAL swindlers. IT is a familiar example of irony in the degradation of words
that " what a man is worth " has come to mean how much money he possesses; ..."
4. Gold Bricks of Speculation: A Study of Speculation and Its Counterfeits, and by John Hill (1904)
"THE TOOLS OF THE swindlers. CHAPTER I. "FAKE" TRADE JOURNALS. How pretended
financial journals boost swindling schemes; how they aid turf swindles; ..."
5. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition: With Appendices by John Bassett Moore (1891)
"Case of " Electric Sugar " swindlers. — On January, 28, 1889, ... known as the
electric sugar swindlers, with grand larceny in the first degree, ..."
6. Underground: Or, Life Below the Surface. Incidents and Accidents Beyond the by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"DEVICES TO AVOID THESE swindlers. — ANNUAL AMOUNT OF THEIR SWINDLES. ... All roads
lead to New York ; all swindlers and adventurers journey thither in ..."
7. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1816)
"... Tables — Anecdote of two English Gentlemen — Precautions to be used in
travelling — Dealers in Virtu — Adventurers and swindlers — Immense Wealth of tke ..."
8. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"The different classes of Cheats and swindlers, and the various tricks and devices
... swindlers who open shops as Auctioneers.—4th. swindlers who pretend to ..."
9. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... (swindlers), one marked by thieves or swindlers as easy to dupe or rob. "
Buy a watch-ticket, John?" cry one did— " Will you bid ? ..."
10. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"MORAL swindlers. IT is a familiar example of irony in the degradation of words
that " what a man is worth " has come to mean how much money he possesses; ..."
11. Gold Bricks of Speculation: A Study of Speculation and Its Counterfeits, and by John Hill (1904)
"THE TOOLS OF THE swindlers. CHAPTER I. "FAKE" TRADE JOURNALS. How pretended
financial journals boost swindling schemes; how they aid turf swindles; ..."
12. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition: With Appendices by John Bassett Moore (1891)
"Case of " Electric Sugar " swindlers. — On January, 28, 1889, ... known as the
electric sugar swindlers, with grand larceny in the first degree, ..."
13. Underground: Or, Life Below the Surface. Incidents and Accidents Beyond the by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"DEVICES TO AVOID THESE swindlers. — ANNUAL AMOUNT OF THEIR SWINDLES. ... All roads
lead to New York ; all swindlers and adventurers journey thither in ..."
14. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1816)
"... Tables — Anecdote of two English Gentlemen — Precautions to be used in
travelling — Dealers in Virtu — Adventurers and swindlers — Immense Wealth of tke ..."
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