What's the difference between kleptomaniac and swindle?

Kleptomaniac


Definition:

  • (n.) A person affected with kleptomania.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still, it’s hard to point fingers at a kleptomaniac when you have sticky fingers too.
  • (2) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
  • (3) In the link economy, value is made not only by those who create content but also by those who create a public for it: the aggregators and curators, such as Google itself, whom Rupert Murdoch and his team label as "parasites," "content kleptomaniacs", and "tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet".
  • (4) I don’t understand why, for example, fetishists, kleptomaniacs or transsexuals should be banned from driving a car… I think this is a violation of the rights of Russian citizens.” The move was also criticised by international rights activists, who said it could create a climate of fear.
  • (5) The old kleptomaniac, who stashed away about $5bn while his country went to ruin, was driven from power by the first Rwandan invasion.
  • (6) Subsequently, we suggest distinguishing between two groups of kleptomaniac patients who can be differentiated with regard to their symptoms and psychodynamics.
  • (7) Huffington said she was disappointed by the insults used by the old media: "Sites that aggregate the news have become, in the words of Rupert Murdoch and his team, 'parasites', 'content kleptomaniacs', 'vampires', 'tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internets, and, of course, thieves who 'steal all our copyright'.
  • (8) We give a list of the descriptive-empirical papers which prove that one cannot speak of an independent clinical picture, but rather that the kleptomaniac actions may be a symptom of multiple causes.
  • (9) The vicious kleptomaniac was eventually overthrown after losing his cold war sponsors in the west.
  • (10) Some kleptomaniacs seem to be "fixed" on special objects when stealing.
  • (11) But the one thing we know about the murderous kleptomaniac regime in Russia is that it walks all over the weak.
  • (12) Suddenly she looked like a middle-class kleptomaniac caught leaving Harrods."
  • (13) Their presence, and the support of Zaire's former kleptomaniac leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, for his old Hutu allies, sowed the seeds of much of the subsequent upheaval in Congo.

Swindle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
  • (n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
  • (2) One of my strongest memories of Malcolm is watching him reduce Richard Branson to tears by refusing to allow him to invest in my film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle .
  • (3) He sent me information about the film The Great Global Warming Swindle.
  • (4) But for Americans who are learning about the agreement, it is clear that the real "us against them" is not America against the more independent nations of the developing world, but TPP countries' citizens against a corporate swindle being negotiated behind their backs.
  • (5) As his 28-page petition seeking the Dallas injunction makes clear, even before the fevered allegations of "epic swindle" and conspiracies by the three directors and RBS, Hicks is obsessed with the $822m (£513m) valuation put on Liverpool by Forbes magazine and his belief that the club should fetch a fortune approaching that.
  • (6) They do the crossing of the Sahara desert, they are swindled, they are often being ransomed, it’s an incredibly violent trek to get to Libya and then cross into Europe.
  • (7) The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively.
  • (8) Either a substitution without proxy or a swindle of one spouse by the other occurs in vital areas of their relation.
  • (9) Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change.
  • (10) But those people would have no problem swearing an oath disingenuously, since they intended from the outset to swindle or bring down the institution anyway.
  • (11) The Texas District State Court petition accuses the chairman, Martin Broughton, appointed by the creditors Royal Bank of Scotland in April to oversee the sale of the club, and his fellow directors of acting as "pawns" of RBS to perpetrate an "epic swindle" in selling the club to NESV for less than half its supposed market value and ignoring several higher offers.
  • (12) They forever print tabloid tales of benefit cheats on the swindle, which is bad – I used to do it – but the reality that we lose £1bn a year on all benefit fraud combined, and £25bn on tax avoidance and evasion by big companies and the super rich is seldom reported.
  • (13) Cameron's role, in Putin's eyes, as modern-day useful idiot may be further enhanced by the former's cautiously oblique references to bilateral concerns including corruption, legal swindles encountered by British businesses and human rights issues.
  • (14) In other cases, the procedure may become a nightware coupled to a swindle, and even endanger the life of the hopeful mother-to-be.
  • (15) Magnitsky exposed the biggest tax swindle in Russian history, and was put to death by Russian officials for his pains.
  • (16) In other words, the emissions scandal is not confined to Volkswagen, to a single algorithm, or to the US: it looks, in all its clever variants, like a compound global swindle.
  • (17) Signatories included Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, editor of Energy and Environment, Jones's least favourite journal, and Martin Durkin, the British TV producer notorious for his programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.
  • (18) A spokesman for Guinness World Records told German paper Taz: "It seems that at the time Guinness was duped by this swindle just like the rest of the media."
  • (19) The Office for National Statistics report published yesterday on migration has provoked some predictable hysteria: the Sun’s headline is “Great Migrant Swindle”, while Allison Pearson in the Telegraph claims that “the gap between ONS migrant figures and the truth is as wide as the Grand Canyon”.
  • (20) For some reason, I can also vividly recall seeing an import single featuring Malcolm McLaren singing You Need Hands: presumably some lunatic at a continental record label had looked at the soundtrack of the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and concluded that the track with most commercial potential was the one that featured their manager tunelessly bellowing his way through the old Max Bygraves number.

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