Swindle

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An instance of swindling.
3. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
4. An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.

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Examples

“There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.”

“[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink⟳ sold in the place⟳. It wasn't even an open⟳ slavery like⟳ an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve⟳.”

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