Слово "swindle". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The political situation seemed unsatisfactory, but uninteresting, there was trouble in China, there was a long account of a rumoured City swindle, but on the whole there was no news of a very thrilling order.  

'It's a swindle that the master race thought up to help the export trade and take in hard currency.'

Or swindle?"

You clean swindled Beauty Smith on top of pushin’ his face in with your fist.”

Was pipsqueak compared to swindles by every government throughout history in financing every war--and is not revolution a war?

Made a lot of money, Will said, swindling the niggers or the government, one or tuther, or confiscating folks' cotton and swearing it was Confederate government cotton.