Word Meanings - SWINDLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.

Related words: (words related to SWINDLERY)

• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• BLACKGUARDISM
  The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.
• SWINDLE
  To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle. (more info) Etym: