Swindler
Swin´dler
SWINDLER, criminal law. A cheat; one guilty of defrauding divers persons. 1
Term Rep. 748; 2 H. Blackst. 531; Stark. on Sland. 135.
2. Swindling is usually applied to a transaction, where the guilty
party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended contract, of the
personal property of another, with the felonious design of appropriating it
to his own use. 2 Russell on Crimes, 130; Alison, Prine. Cr. Law of
Scotland, 250; Mass. 406.
Artful Dodger,
Judas,
Philadelphia lawyer,
Yankee horse trader,
betrayer,
blackleg,
body snatcher,
booster,
bunco steerer,
charlatan,
charmer,
cheat,
cheater,
chicken thief,
chiseler,
come-on,
con man,
confidence man,
convict,
cozener,
crafty rascal,
criminal,
crook,
deceiver,
defrauder,
den of thieves,
desperado,
desperate criminal,
diddler,
dodger,
double-dealer,
embezzler,
felon,
filcher,
flimflam man,
flimflammer,
fox,
fraud,
fugitive,
gallows bird,
ganef,
gangster,
gaolbird,
ghoul,
glib tongue,
grafter,
grave robber,
gyp artist,
gypper,
hoaxer,
horse trader,
jailbird,
jewel thief,
juggler,
knave,
land pirate,
land shark,
land-grabber,
larcener,
larcenist,
lawbreaker,
lifter,
mobster,
mountebank,
outlaw,
peculator,
petty thief,
pilferer,
poacher,
prowler,
public enemy,
purloiner,
quisling,
racketeer,
reynard,
robber,
scofflaw,
scoundrel,
scrounger,
sharper,
shoplifter,
shyster,
slick citizen,
sly dog,
slyboots,
sneak thief,
stealer,
sweet talker,
thief,
thug,
traitor,
trickster,
two-timer,
villain,
white-collar thief