swindled

[ swin-dld ]

adjective

, Jewelry.

1. (of a gem) cut so as to retain the maximum weight of the original stone or to give a false impression of size, especially by having the table too large.

Word History and Origins

Origin of swindled¹

swindle + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Tweed is estimated to have swindled the equivalent of $3.5 billion from New York during his time as a senator.

From The Daily Beast

He had been swindled out of his life savings—around $8 million—by his former manager and lover Kelley Lynch.

From The Daily Beast

Murrell was a horse thief and slave stealer who swindled his way through the Deep South in the early 1830s.

From The Daily Beast

If I lost millions, it's because so-and-so A swindled me, or so-and-so B down the supply line didn't do his part, and it hurt me.

From The Daily Beast

Feeling swindled, and suspecting that  Crédit Lyonnais and Louis-Dreyfus had conspired against him, Tapie sued for damages.

From The Daily Beast

He, Aristide Pujol, was the most sweetly, the most completely swindled man in France.

From Project Gutenberg

And for the third time he was swindled by a persuasive man and a lying one-sided contract.

From Project Gutenberg

That he had really been swindled by such nicely-spoken men as he had met at the Carwell hotel seemed extraordinary to him.

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The fourth time he may be swindled again more easily and completely than before.

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“Anstey swindled him out of every shilling he had,” put in Dawes, seeing Gerard hesitate and look a trifle embarrassed.

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