SWINDLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swindler mean? 

• SWINDLER (noun)
  The noun SWINDLER has 1 sense:

1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

  Familiarity information: SWINDLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWINDLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler

Hypernyms ("swindler" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swindler"):

card shark; card sharp; card sharper; cardsharp; cardsharper; sharper; sharpie; sharpy (a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games)

clip artist (a swindler who fleeces the victim)

con artist; con man; confidence man (a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim)

welcher; welsher (someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager)

Derivation:

swindle (deprive of by deceit)

 Context examples 

Come!” Receiving no answer to these taunts, he would mount in his wrath to the words “swindlers” and “robbers”; and these being ineffectual too, would sometimes go to the extremity of crossing the street, and roaring up at the windows of the second floor, where he knew Mr. Micawber was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even the knowledge that he had succeeded where the police of three countries had failed, and that he had outmanœuvred at every point the most accomplished swindler in Europe, was insufficient to rouse him from his nervous prostration.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She's not leaving me!" Tom's words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. "Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)