(n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Kremlin swindlers have understood that paid commenters and an army of bots can't help them in any way with their 'ideological struggle for the internet'," Navalny wrote in his blog on Tuesday .
(2) Navalny vowed to continue his fight against "the swindlers in the Kremlin and the White House", the seat of Russia's government.
(3) The Middle is a family sitcom starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn; while Lone Star features James Wolk as a Texan who leads a double life as both a devoted husband to the daughter of a Houston oil baron and a small-town swindler with a girlfriend 400 miles away.
(4) He worked with the most gifted French directors of his day, from Godard (four films including the masterly Pierrot le fou) and Melville (three gangster pictures and Léon Morin, prêtre) to Louis Malle (in Le Voleur) and Alain Resnais (the eponymous swindler in Stavisky He became France's number one box-office attraction in two Philippe de Broca films: the period swashbuckler Cartouche and the espionage thriller That Man from Rio.
(5) Earlier this month, the bank reached an agreement to pay $1.7bn to settle criminal charges stemming from its failure to report its concerns about Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's private investment service.
(6) The references to Armenia do not seem accidental – it appears that the authorities aim to demonise the Yunuses by portraying them not only as swindlers but also as enemies of the nation.
(7) They tried to portray her as a manipulative career swindler who ran a lonely hearts scam and spent time in jail.
(8) They include US dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families of despots, Wall Street swindlers, eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian executives, international arms dealers and a company alleged to be a front for Iran's nuclear-development programme.
(9) Navalny provoked special ire earlier this year when he called United Russia , the dominant political party headed by the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, a "party of swindlers and cheats", a nickname that spread like wildfire through young liberals dissatisfied with the country's ruling elite.
(10) Mayhew's account of the cheap goods sold on street corners that carry "gaudy labels bearing sometimes the name of a well-known firm, but altered in spelling or otherwise" will be familiar to anyone who has been tempted to buy a "Louis Viton" handbag or "Guchi" watch, just as the swindler who poses as a "Decayed Gentleman" and sends out begging-letters will strike a chord with anyone stung by email spam.
(11) Swindlers and legitimate fund managers both project an image of respectability and stability - and they both make promises about how much money they can make for clients.
(12) All this was no more than a swindler's just desserts.
Villain
Definition:
(n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
(n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
(n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
(a.) Villainous.
(v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(2) They’re not moustache-twirling villains that are going, “ah ha ha that’s great”, they’re going: “You’re right.
(3) Society needs a villain and right now we’re convenient.” “ I will carefully admit there has been an awful lot of almonds planted that maybe shouldn’t have been because outside money came in and wanted to plant,” he says.
(4) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
(5) The success of Capote paved the way for bigger and more nuanced parts for Hoffman, his turn as the villain in Mission: Impossible III (2006) notwithstanding.
(6) Maleficent, Disney's latest film out on 28 May, offers the untold back story of the villain from the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty, with Jolie in the title role.
(7) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(8) And that’s what we do in drama and comedy: we create our own heroes and villains, so no one really gets hurt.
(9) You're a devious villain conducting the perfect crime, like the dashing guest star in the opening scene of a classic Columbo.
(10) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
(11) The people shaping the news require a very simple story – they have to be angels and villains.” John Stoltenberg is a gay-rights activist who lived with the feminist writer Andrea Dworkin until her death in 2005.
(12) We are not the villains you paint us on your trollblogs.
(13) For the real villain – look behind Obama, to the Republican party.
(14) It is, according to environmentalist and MP Zac Goldsmith, the most dramatic turnaround of any global green villain ever seen and an encouraging sign that huge environmental challenges can be tackled.
(15) As Paltrow explains: “So-called pro-life measures are being used in ways that not only violate women’s reproductive rights, but create the basis for depriving them of their constitutional personhood and human rights.” While it may be easy to cast women who drink in pregnancy as villains, criminalising them does no one any favours, save for those with a broader anti-women agenda.
(16) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
(17) In the Kenzie and Gennaro series, like all good detective fiction, the city is as sharp and unpredictable as the villains themselves.
(18) Why swapping heroes for heroines is a Top Dollar idea Read more The potential gender-swap casting comes after Britain’s Andrea Riseborough was named earlier this month as a frontrunner to play the villain Top Dollar in a high-profile upcoming remake of cult comic book movie The Crow.
(19) Mohammed al-Sabban Senior economic adviser, Saudi Arabia Moustachioed high-up in his country's ministry of petroleum and mineral resources, leader of the Saudi Arabian negotiating team, and a reasonable bet for Copenhagen's most likely villain.
(20) For one thing, villains always believe they are exceptional.