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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.



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It’s a pleasure to be so deftly swindled.

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If he can’t take out his rage on Se-mi, maybe the pregnant girlfriend of the man who swindled him will suffice.

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The group, which offered services across Yorkshire and Derbyshire, claimed to be part of a government energy efficiency scheme and are believed to have swindled more than £1m from victims.

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He was sentenced Wednesday to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million in restitution to investors he swindled.

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Last year I wrote about two retired L.A. residents, a former teacher and a former banker, who were swindled out of roughly $80,000 apiece in internet scams.

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