2. Verb. (third-person singular of swindle) ¹
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Definition of Swindles
1. swindle [v] - See also: swindle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swindles
Literary usage of Swindles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twenty-five Years of Detective Life by Jerome Caminada (1895)
"REGISTRY OFFICE swindles. OF all the cruel and hard-hearted swindles which affect
the public, I know none more annoying than that of the bogus Registry ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"... That the national-bank system is one of the greatest swindles ever perpetrated
on a patient people, practically allowing aggregated capital to purchase ..."
3. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1874)
"swindles AND HOAXES. IT is of course only natural that as soon as advertising
became general, that portion of the community which regards the other portion ..."
4. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1874)
"swindles AND HOAXES. IT is of course only natural that as soon as advertising
became general, that portion of the community which regards the other portion ..."
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