Definitions for swindles

swindles swin·dle

Spelling: [swin-dl]
IPA: /ˈswɪn dl/

Swindles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in swindles (deilnssw).

Definitions for swindles

noun

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

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 swindles

1775-85; back formation from swindler German Schwindler irresponsible person, promoter of wildcat schemes, cheat, derivative of schwindeln to be dizzy (hence dizzy-minded, irresponsible), def

Examples for swindles

Of course, if there is anything approaching a swindle in it, I shall have nothing to do with it.

"Yes—that's how he came to swindle me and several others," answered our hero.

An illegal stock tip is not the same thing as a swindle; but $68 million buys a lot of basketballs and BB guns.

Another way of looking at it: How many Bernard Madoffs would it take to swindle the US taxpayer out of $1.2 trillion?

Ay, grow pale if you like; but I 'll repeat the word,—a swindle!

I'd like to know about this swindle that's going to be sprung on him.

Sell he swindle, rum, fire-water, We will sell him Fear in plenty.

A cardinal and a queen implicated in a forgery and a swindle!

Devar was in the swindle and kept Miste advised of your movements.

The man has had a finger in every Anglo-French swindle of the last ten years.

Word Value for swindles
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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