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Flimflam felt better in the mouth than swindle, and rubberneck was a more agreeable verb than crane.

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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?

I know where it claims to be, and I know it is just one big swindle from beginning to end.

He said it was a bad swindle and he knew many others who had lost their money, too, which I thought would please you.

Bois l'Hery's horses were unsound, Schwalbach's gallery was a swindle, Moessard's articles a recognised blackmail.

The whole thing was a cleverly-planned swindle, and unless you can get the bonds back you'll be out the money.

That is true, too,—although I somehow think Merrick is the prime mover in this swindle.

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On this page you'll find 186 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to swindle, such as: deceit, deception, extortion, hoax, racket, and ripoff.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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