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n. - A person who cons you by means of deception or fraud.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Underneath his smooth veneer Rourke's Yankee swindler is sinister.
  • "You would have me steal away in secret, like what you English call a swindler!"
  • The swindler was a potter, and the woman told him that he ought to give her a load of pots.
  • Handel was called a swindler, a drunkard, and a blasphemer, to whom Scripture even was not sacred.
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