Thesaurus results for SWINDLED

swindled

verb

past tense of swindle

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings, and all they had to show for it were fake land deeds

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Recent Examples of swindled But according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Santa Barbara, Ireland and her husband have been swindled out of their home equity and their life insurance policies, forced to sell their home, and left without substantial savings. —

Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026 Robin Williams was swindled a few times. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026 Many indigenous groups on this continent whom settlers swindled, attacked, and displaced have a long history of using sweat lodges both for cleaning the body and in ritual. —

Madeline Leung Coleman, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026 This was partly out of deference to a president who thinks not of enemies but only of potential counterparties to be bargained with, bullied, swindled, or accommodated. —

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026 But the attempt at humor didn’t satisfy some angry fans who believe Mets President David Stearns swindled Getz in a trade that essentially was a salary dump. —

Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026 Some alleged Sunlight simply stopped working while the job was only partway completed; the rest said they were swindled out of downpayments and ended up with nothing. —

Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026 The investors' attorneys said about $46 million of the money the pair swindled from their investors went to pay for expensive cars. —

Steffanie Dupree, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026 John Tamahere McCabe, 42, swindled the money by falsely promising to sell the 79-year-old victim’s yacht for him and by taking out unauthorized loans against his Irvine condominium. —

Sean Emery, Oc Register, 28 Jan. 2026

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Some people like to vote on election day, said Dianne Clinkscale from Dallas, arguing that the county’s voters got cheated out their right on to vote.

— Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
Visitors to the sites at Independence Park were cheated when they were cut off from facts that enable us to imagine ourselves in the lives of those who lived and worked there.

— Carol Quillen, Time, 21 Feb. 2026