Swindle

Definition

swindle /'swÇndl/ v ( infml ) ~ sb/ sth (out of sth) လိမ္သည္။ ကလိမ္က်သည္။ swindle an insurance company ❍ Investors were swindled out of millions of pounds. n (က) လိမ္လည္မႈ။ an international swindle involving forged bank- notes. (ခ) အလိမ္။ The competition was a complete swindle. ❏ swindler /'swÇndlǝ(r)/ n လူလိမ္။

Examples

1. ‘Sometimes
2. the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees.’
3. ‘Most victims were swindled into paying €3
4. 000 or more.’
5. ‘I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.’
6. ‘In fact
7. he has swindled his own family by managing to become the sole inheritor of their grandparents' estate.’
8. ‘A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64
9. 000 on exotic foreign holidays.’
10. ‘In 1989 he pleaded guilty to 55 counts of fraud
11. allegedly swindling elderly victims in Virginia and Tennessee out of around $1.25 million.’
12. ‘He failed not simply because he was swindled
13. but also because he was stupid.’
14. ‘The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds.’
15. ‘Then we hear about widespread accounting malpractices
16. even in giant corporations
17. and start to wonder if this is not a huge conspiracy to swindle us out of our money.’
18. ‘If that does not happen
19. unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop.’
20. ‘The group is suspected of having swindled each customer out of about 50
21. 000 yen in such fees.’
22. ‘While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people
23. for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites.’
24. ‘It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless
25. as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money.’
26. ‘The so-called ‘phishing’ scams have developed as a popular technique for fraudsters to swindle people out of everything from PayPal accounts to ATM codes.’
27. ‘For example
28. if I find a way of legally swindling you out of a lot of money
29. I cannot claim that my action is morally acceptable just because it is legal.’
30. ‘I felt sorry for those poor desperate people being swindled in such a way.’
31. ‘It's estimated that patients were swindled out of some $12
32. 750
33. 000 from August / 96 to February / 03.’
34. ‘She swindled eight people out of $111
35. 000 in cash and jewelry before she was stopped.’
36. ‘I admit I live by my wits a lot
37. but I don't use them to swindle people.’
38. ‘I bought this system from you believing you to be a reputable firm and I can plainly see you've swindled me out of my money’