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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

詐欺師

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sagishi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Swindler/ˈswɪn.dlər/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その詐欺師は多額の金を盗んで逃げた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who defrauds or cheats others out of money or possessions, typically by using clever deception or trickery.

    "The smooth-talking swindler managed to convince investors to hand over their life savings for a fake real estate project."
  2. 2

    Someone who obtains valuables under false pretenses.

    "Police finally caught up with the notorious financial swindler after years of international evasion."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the 18th-century English verb 'swindle', which originated from the German 'schwindeln' (to cheat, or originally to be dizzy/giddy). The suffix '-er' was added to denote a person who performs the action, entering standard English usage around the late 1700s during a period of rising commercial fraud.

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