Meanings (ES + gloss)
engañabobos • engañifa • estafa • pufo • socaliña • timo
An instance of swindling.
There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.
[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
dársela con queso • estafar • petardear • tangar • timar
To defraud.
Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary e…
The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
estafar • petardear • timar • trampear
To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
She swindled more than £200 out of me.
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