Definitions for swindled

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swindled swin·dled

Spelling: [swin-dld]

IPA: /ˈswɪn dld/

Swindled is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in swindled (ddeilnsw).

Definitions for swindled

noun

1. an act of swindling or a fraudulent transaction or scheme.
2. anything deceptive; a fraud:

adjective

1. (of a gem) cut so as to retain the maximum weight of the original stone or to give a false impression of size, especially by having the table too large.

verb (used with object)

1. to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
2. to obtain by fraud or deceit.

verb (used without object)

1. to put forward plausible schemes or use unscrupulous trickery to defraud others; cheat.

Origin of swindled

swindle + -ed²

Examples for swindled

He converted everything into cash; he lied, swindled, stole, and skipped.

"You have been swindled, Bohmer," said the Queen's lady promptly.

I'm only a country boy, but I don't allow myself to be swindled as easily as you.

Murrell was a horse thief and slave stealer who swindled his way through the Deep South in the early 1830s.

Tweed is estimated to have swindled the equivalent of $3.5 billion from New York during his time as a senator.

He had been swindled out of his life savings—around $8 million—by his former manager and lover Kelley Lynch.

But that uncle of hers swindled me out of ten thousand dollars!

If I lost millions, it's because so-and-so A swindled me, or so-and-so B down the supply line didn't do his part, and it hurt me.

Did you ever hear of a case in which a swindler was swindled?

He is swindled by no agents, post-traders or secretaries at war.