Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swindled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swindling}.] [See {Swindler}.] To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. --Carlyle.
Swindle \Swin"dle\, n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Jurors deliberated heard four months of testimony about the $25 million swindle that snared Wall Street brokerages, major banks and small investors.
Jurors rejected his defense that Mafia figures had forced him to swindle investors by falsely claiming his company was making a fortune restoring fire- and water-damaged buildings.
Luther Darville, former acting director of the school's Office of Minority and Special Student Affairs, was indicted in May on three counts of felony theft by swindle.
Minkow claimed its demise was caused by mobsters, including the late Jack Catain, who turned the business into a swindle.
It (his arrest) was not just a fluke." Three men, two dressed as women, fled from a Sydney bank Friday after a swindle attempt failed but all three were captured, one at the scene and two following a car chase, police reported.
I don't think he was out to swindle a lot of people out of their money." Many disagree.
A man linked to Mr. Abe, former Kyowa vice president Goro Moriguchi, is on trial in connection with an alleged $29 million swindle involving advance payments from trading companies.
Luther Darville was convicted last month of three felony counts of theft by swindle.
It was a swindle," said Gran.
Two art dealers were convicted in a multimillion swindle involving reproductions of works by Salvador Dali and actors Anthony Quinn, Red Skelton and Tony Curtis.