swindler
nounUK /ˈswɪnd.lə(ɹ)/
Etymology Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774.
1
A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
- But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.1908, The Scrap Book: Second Section, volume V, page 637:
- There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- swindlership