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  • 41 llevarse bien con

    • get along well with
    • get along with
    • get on well
    • get on with
    • hit in the nose
    • hit man
    • keep in with
    • remain on good terms with
    • stand well with

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > llevarse bien con

  • 42 Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres

    Español-Inglés colección ilustrada idiomas > Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres

  • 43 estafador

    adj.
    swindling.
    m.
    swindler, con artist, cheat, cheater.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 racketeer, swindler, trickster
    * * *
    estafador, -a
    SM / F
    1) (=timador) swindler, trickster
    2) (Com, Econ) racketeer
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Der) fraudster
    b) (fam) ( timador) con man (colloq)
    * * *
    = con man, crook, swindler, cheater, fraudster, scammer, cuckoo in the nest, con artist, scamster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.
    Ex. His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex. The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    Ex. The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex. Intenrnet also enables enterprising would-be cheaters to cut and paste material for easy and relatively thought-free composition of essay assignments.
    Ex. The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex. Phishing (also known as phising or carding) is the practice whereby a scammer who is pretending to be from a legitimate organisation, sends misleading emails requesting personal and financial details from unsuspecting people.
    Ex. This type of relgion is a cuckoo in the nest that, in the name of secular society and pluralism, is pushing out all other gods.
    Ex. This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex. Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex. You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex. In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex. This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Der) fraudster
    b) (fam) ( timador) con man (colloq)
    * * *
    = con man, crook, swindler, cheater, fraudster, scammer, cuckoo in the nest, con artist, scamster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.

    Ex: His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.

    Ex: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    Ex: The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex: Intenrnet also enables enterprising would-be cheaters to cut and paste material for easy and relatively thought-free composition of essay assignments.
    Ex: The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex: Phishing (also known as phising or carding) is the practice whereby a scammer who is pretending to be from a legitimate organisation, sends misleading emails requesting personal and financial details from unsuspecting people.
    Ex: This type of relgion is a cuckoo in the nest that, in the name of secular society and pluralism, is pushing out all other gods.
    Ex: This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex: Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex: You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex: In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex: This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Der) fraudster
    2 ( fam) (timador) con man ( colloq), rip-off artist ( AmE colloq), rip-off merchant ( BrE colloq)
    * * *

    estafador
    ◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    a) (Der) fraudster

    b) (fam) ( timador) swindler (colloq)

    estafador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino swindler, con man: era un estafador sin escrúpulos, he was an unscrupulous con man
    ' estafador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    estafadora
    - gancho
    - granuja
    - mangante
    - sinvergüenza
    English:
    cheat
    - con man
    - rope in
    - shark
    - swindler
    - con
    - hustler
    * * *
    estafador, -ora nm,f
    [timador] swindler; [de empresa, organización] fraudster
    * * *
    m, estafadora f con artist fam, fraudster
    * * *
    : cheat, swindler

    Spanish-English dictionary > estafador

  • 44 timador

    m.
    1 swindler, cheat, con man, confidence man.
    2 impostor, charlatan, faker, fraud.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 swindler, cheat
    * * *
    timador, -a
    SM / F swindler, trickster
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino swindler, cheat
    * * *
    = con man, crook, swindler, con artist, scamster, fraudster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.
    Ex. His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex. The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    Ex. The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex. This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex. Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex. The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex. You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex. In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex. This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino swindler, cheat
    * * *
    = con man, crook, swindler, con artist, scamster, fraudster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.

    Ex: His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.

    Ex: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    Ex: The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex: This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex: Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex: The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex: You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex: In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex: This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    swindler, cheat
    * * *

    timador
    ◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    swindler, cheat
    timador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino swindler

    ' timador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    charlatán
    - charlatana
    - timadora
    - estafador
    English:
    con
    - swindler
    * * *
    timador, -ora nm,f
    con artist, confidence trickster, swindler
    * * *
    m, timadora f cheat
    * * *
    : swindler

    Spanish-English dictionary > timador

  • 45 embaucador

    adj.
    deceptive, deceiving.
    m.
    faker, charlatan, fraud, bamboozler.
    * * *
    1 deceitful
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 cheat, swindler, trickster
    * * *
    embaucador, -a
    SM / F (=estafador) trickster, swindler; (=impostor) impostor; (=farsante) humbug
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo deceitful
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino trickster
    * * *
    = trickster, swindler, wheeler-dealer, duplicitous, two-faced, con artist, con man, humbug, scamster, fraudster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.
    Ex. A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.
    Ex. The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex. The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
    Ex. This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.
    Ex. This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
    Ex. This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex. His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex. Worldly people and even monks without spiritual discernment are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites and those who are in demonic delusion.
    Ex. Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex. The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex. You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex. In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex. This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo deceitful
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino trickster
    * * *
    = trickster, swindler, wheeler-dealer, duplicitous, two-faced, con artist, con man, humbug, scamster, fraudster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.

    Ex: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.

    Ex: The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex: The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
    Ex: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.
    Ex: This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
    Ex: This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex: His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex: Worldly people and even monks without spiritual discernment are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites and those who are in demonic delusion.
    Ex: Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex: The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex: You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex: In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex: This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.

    * * *
    deceitful
    masculine, feminine
    trickster, con artist ( colloq)
    * * *

    embaucador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    deceitful
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    trickster
    embaucador,-ora
    I adjetivo deceitful
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino swindler, cheat

    ' embaucador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    charlatán
    - charlatana
    - embaucadora
    English:
    trickster
    * * *
    embaucador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    deceitful
    ♦ nm,f
    swindler, confodence man o trickster
    * * *
    I adj deceitful
    II m, embaucadora f trickster
    * * *
    : swindler, deceiver

    Spanish-English dictionary > embaucador

  • 46 farsante

    adj.
    1 deceitful.
    2 fake, faker, false, humbug.
    f. & m.
    1 deceitful person.
    es un farsante he's a fraud
    2 phoney, phony, faker, charlatan.
    3 show-off, braggart, boaster, old humbug.
    * * *
    1 lying, deceitful
    1 fake, impostor
    * * *
    masculino y femenino fraud, fake
    * * *
    = charlatan, con artist, con man, humbug, fabricator, fraud, fraudster, hoaxer, hoaxster.
    Ex. He is gullible, not very bright, the ready dupe of the charlatan and the demagogue.
    Ex. This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex. His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex. Worldly people and even monks without spiritual discernment are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites and those who are in demonic delusion.
    Ex. It is important to remember that the story of the American West has been told as much by fabulists and fabricators as by historians.
    Ex. You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex. The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex. In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex. This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino fraud, fake
    * * *
    = charlatan, con artist, con man, humbug, fabricator, fraud, fraudster, hoaxer, hoaxster.

    Ex: He is gullible, not very bright, the ready dupe of the charlatan and the demagogue.

    Ex: This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex: His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex: Worldly people and even monks without spiritual discernment are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites and those who are in demonic delusion.
    Ex: It is important to remember that the story of the American West has been told as much by fabulists and fabricators as by historians.
    Ex: You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex: The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex: In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex: This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.

    * * *
    fraud, fake
    * * *

    farsante sustantivo masculino y femenino
    fraud, fake
    farsante mf (impostor) fake, impostor
    ' farsante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    comedianta
    - comediante
    - encantador
    - encantadora
    English:
    fake
    - fraud
    - phoney
    - see
    - sham
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    deceitful;
    ¡qué farsantes son! they're such frauds!
    ♦ nmf
    fraud;
    es un farsante he's a fraud
    * * *
    m/f fraud, fake
    * * *
    charlatán: charlatan, fraud, phony

    Spanish-English dictionary > farsante

  • 47 sambenito

    m.
    sanbenito, sackcloth garment.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: sambenitar.
    * * *
    2 figurado (deshonra) disgrace; (descrédito) stigma
    \
    colgarle un sambenito a alguien figurado to give somebody a bad name
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=deshonra)
    2) ( Hist) sanbenito
    * * *
    masculino (fam) label

    me colgaron or pusieron el sambenito de timador — they branded o labeled me a con man

    * * *
    masculino (fam) label

    me colgaron or pusieron el sambenito de timador — they branded o labeled me a con man

    * * *
    ( fam)
    le echaron el sambenito they put the blame on him
    intentan deshacerse del sambenito de país tercermundista they are trying to rid themselves of the label o image of a third-world country
    me colgaron or pusieron el sambenito de timador they branded o labeled me a con man
    * * *

    sambenito m fig dishonour, disgrace
    ♦ Locuciones: colgar el sambenito a alguien de algo, to brand sb sthg
    (desprestigiar, esp de forma injustificada) le han colgado el sambenito de que es un vago, they've marked him down as a good-for-nothing
    * * *
    Fam
    poner o [m5]colgar a alguien el sambenito de borracho/tacaño to brand sb a drunk/a miser;
    intenta quitarse el sambenito de corrupto he is trying to shake off his reputation as a crook;
    desde hace tiempo arrastra el sambenito de vago for a long time he has had the reputation of being a layabout
    * * *
    m
    :
    le han colgado el sambenito de vago fam they’ve got him down as idle fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > sambenito

  • 48 estafadora

    adj.
    chiseling, swindling.
    f.
    1 impostor, swindler, chiseler, cheat.
    2 con woman.
    * * *

    estafador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino swindler, con man: era un estafador sin escrúpulos, he was an unscrupulous con man
    * * *
    m, estafadora f con artist fam, fraudster

    Spanish-English dictionary > estafadora

  • 49 engañabobos

    m.&f. s&pl.
    swindler, trickster.
    * * *
    1 familiar (persona) con artist, trickster
    1 familiar (trampa) con trick, trap
    * * *
    1.
    SMF INV (=persona) trickster
    2.
    SM (=trampa) trick, trap
    * * *
    masculino (pl engañabobos) (fam) con (colloq), swindle (colloq)
    * * *
    masculino (pl engañabobos) (fam) con (colloq), swindle (colloq)
    * * *
    con ( colloq), swindle ( colloq), swizz ( BrE colloq)
    * * *
    ♦ nm inv
    [cosa] con (trick);
    esa promoción es un engañabobos that special offer is a con
    ♦ nmf inv
    [persona] con man, con artist
    * * *
    m inv fam
    1 persona swindler, conman fam
    2 cosa swindle, con fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > engañabobos

  • 50 granuja

    adj.
    rascally, impish, mischievous.
    f. & m.
    1 rogue, scoundrel (pillo).
    2 rascal, little wretch, urchin, gamin.
    3 loose grape separate from the bunch.
    4 seeds of the grape and other small fruits.
    * * *
    1 (uva) grapes plural
    1 (pilluelo) ragamuffin, urchin
    2 (estafador) crook, trickster
    * * *
    1.
    SMF (=bribón) rogue; [dicho con afecto] rascal; (=pilluelo) urchin, ragamuffin
    2.
    SF (=uvas) loose grapes pl ; (=semilla) grape seed
    * * *
    masculino y femenino rascal
    * * *
    = shyster, miscreant, villain, tearaway, lager lout, street urchin, slum urchin, urchin, street arab, rascal, scallywag [scalawag, -USA], rapscallion, cad, ragamuffin, ruffian, hoodlum, swine, pig, crook.
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    Ex. The forest, therefore, is regarded as the abode of robbers & sundry miscreants, implying its relation to the forces of chaos & disorder.
    Ex. The father, Old Brightwell, curses his daughter, Jane, for preferring the love of the smooth-tongued villain, Grandley, to that of her own parents.
    Ex. He acused politicians of 'losing the plot' on crime as the 'thriving yob culture' of hooligans and tearaways terrorise the streets.
    Ex. It is routine for people to complain about the 'hordes of lager louts' who turn city centres into 'no-go areas'.
    Ex. The author examines Whistler's visits to the more squalid sections of the city, his views along the Thames and his portrayals of street urchins.
    Ex. Victorian photographs of social commentary ranged from the pseudo-sentimental slum urchins of Oscar Rejlander to the stark honest portrayal of the horrible conditions of the Glascow slums by Thomas Annan.
    Ex. This is a film that that will melt hearts of stone, with its cast of scruffy urchins who learn both song and life lessons under the tutelage of a paternalistic mentor at a grim boarding school for 'difficult' boys.
    Ex. Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons.
    Ex. And although they may pose themselves as very religious, they are simply rascals.
    Ex. In other words, we either have morons or thugs running the White House -- or perhaps one moron, one thug, and a smattering of scalawags in between.
    Ex. In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
    Ex. Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.
    Ex. He was looking affably at the two dubious ragamuffins and, moreover, even making inviting gestures to them.
    Ex. The coroner said she had died not from drowning, but from being abused and murdered by a gang of ruffians.
    Ex. Gangs of hoodlums, aged as young as eight, are roaming the streets terrorising store owners and shoppers in broad daylight.
    Ex. In German law it is a criminal offense for A to insult B, for example, by calling him a swine.
    Ex. He was waiting for the opportunity to unleash his fury, no one calls him a pig and gets away with it.
    Ex. The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino rascal
    * * *
    = shyster, miscreant, villain, tearaway, lager lout, street urchin, slum urchin, urchin, street arab, rascal, scallywag [scalawag, -USA], rapscallion, cad, ragamuffin, ruffian, hoodlum, swine, pig, crook.

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Ex: The forest, therefore, is regarded as the abode of robbers & sundry miscreants, implying its relation to the forces of chaos & disorder.
    Ex: The father, Old Brightwell, curses his daughter, Jane, for preferring the love of the smooth-tongued villain, Grandley, to that of her own parents.
    Ex: He acused politicians of 'losing the plot' on crime as the 'thriving yob culture' of hooligans and tearaways terrorise the streets.
    Ex: It is routine for people to complain about the 'hordes of lager louts' who turn city centres into 'no-go areas'.
    Ex: The author examines Whistler's visits to the more squalid sections of the city, his views along the Thames and his portrayals of street urchins.
    Ex: Victorian photographs of social commentary ranged from the pseudo-sentimental slum urchins of Oscar Rejlander to the stark honest portrayal of the horrible conditions of the Glascow slums by Thomas Annan.
    Ex: This is a film that that will melt hearts of stone, with its cast of scruffy urchins who learn both song and life lessons under the tutelage of a paternalistic mentor at a grim boarding school for 'difficult' boys.
    Ex: Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons.
    Ex: And although they may pose themselves as very religious, they are simply rascals.
    Ex: In other words, we either have morons or thugs running the White House -- or perhaps one moron, one thug, and a smattering of scalawags in between.
    Ex: In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
    Ex: Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.
    Ex: He was looking affably at the two dubious ragamuffins and, moreover, even making inviting gestures to them.
    Ex: The coroner said she had died not from drowning, but from being abused and murdered by a gang of ruffians.
    Ex: Gangs of hoodlums, aged as young as eight, are roaming the streets terrorising store owners and shoppers in broad daylight.
    Ex: In German law it is a criminal offense for A to insult B, for example, by calling him a swine.
    Ex: He was waiting for the opportunity to unleash his fury, no one calls him a pig and gets away with it.
    Ex: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.

    * * *
    rascal
    ¿dónde se habrá metido este granujilla? where's that little rascal o monkey got(ten) to?
    * * *

    granuja sustantivo masculino y femenino
    rascal
    granuja sustantivo masculino
    1 (pícaro) urchin
    2 (estafador, truhán) swindler
    ' granuja' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bandida
    - bandido
    - pájaro
    - sinvergüenza
    - canalla
    - pajarraco
    - rufián
    English:
    rascal
    - rogue
    * * *
    granuja nmf
    1. [pillo] rogue, scoundrel
    2. [canalla] trickster, swindler
    * * *
    m/f rascal
    * * *
    granuja nmf
    pilluelo: rascal, urchin
    * * *
    granuja adj rascal

    Spanish-English dictionary > granuja

  • 51 filo

    m.
    1 (cutting) edge (borde).
    al filo de just before
    al filo de la medianoche at the stroke of midnight
    de doble filo, de dos filos (figurative) double-edged
    2 cutting edge, edge, knife edge, sharp edge.
    3 sharpness, incisiveness.
    4 phylum.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: filar.
    * * *
    1 cutting edge, edge
    \
    sacar filo a algo to sharpen something
    al filo de figurado on the stroke of
    arma de doble filo figurado double-edged sword
    como el filo de un cuchillo (aire, viento) biting
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) edge
    * * *
    I
    SM
    1) [de navaja, espada] cutting edge, blade
    - vivir en el filo de la navaja
    2) [con horas]

    por filo †† — exactly

    3) (Náut)
    4) LAm (=de montaña) ridge
    5) And
    6) Méx
    * (=hambre)
    7) Cono Sur (=cuento) tale, tall story
    8) Cono Sur (=pretendiente) suitor; (=novia) girlfriend; (=cortejo) courtship
    II
    SM (Bio) phylum
    III
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de cuchillo, espada) cutting edge, blade

    caminar por or pisar el filo de la navaja — to be on a knife-edge

    b) ( borde) edge
    2) (AmL fam) ( hambre)
    * * *
    = edge.
    Ex. As used in an index each card acts as a surrogate for one document, and the index terms for that document are encoded around the edge of the card.
    ----
    * al filo de = on the brink of, on the edge of, on the verge of.
    * al filo de la acera = kerbside [curbside, -USA], curbside [kerbside, -UK].
    * arma de dos filos = double-edged sword.
    * con un filo más pronunciado = sharper-edged.
    * con un solo filo = single-edge.
    * de doble filo = double-edged.
    * de un solo filo = single-edge.
    * espada de dos filos = sword with two edges, two-edged sword.
    * ser arma de dos filos = be a mixed blessing.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de cuchillo, espada) cutting edge, blade

    caminar por or pisar el filo de la navaja — to be on a knife-edge

    b) ( borde) edge
    2) (AmL fam) ( hambre)
    * * *
    = edge.

    Ex: As used in an index each card acts as a surrogate for one document, and the index terms for that document are encoded around the edge of the card.

    * al filo de = on the brink of, on the edge of, on the verge of.
    * al filo de la acera = kerbside [curbside, -USA], curbside [kerbside, -UK].
    * arma de dos filos = double-edged sword.
    * con un filo más pronunciado = sharper-edged.
    * con un solo filo = single-edge.
    * de doble filo = double-edged.
    * de un solo filo = single-edge.
    * espada de dos filos = sword with two edges, two-edged sword.
    * ser arma de dos filos = be a mixed blessing.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de un cuchillo, una espada) cutting edge, blade
    este cuchillo no tiene mucho filo this knife doesn't cut very well o isn't very sharp
    le voy a dar filo I'm going to sharpen it
    darle filo a algn ( RPl fam); to suck up to sb ( colloq)
    3 (borde) edge
    el filo de la mesa the edge of the table
    al filo de las siete at seven o'clock sharp, on the dot of seven o'clock
    B ( Biol) phylum
    C
    ( AmL fam) (hambre): tengo un filo enorme I'm ravenous o starved ( colloq), I'm starving ( BrE colloq)
    D ( RPl fam) (novio) boyfriend; (novia) girlfriend
    * * *

    Del verbo filar: ( conjugate filar)

    filo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    filó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    filo sustantivo masculino
    a) (de cuchillo, espada) cutting edge, blade;


    le voy a dar filo I'm going to sharpen it
    b) ( borde) edge;


    al filo de las siete at seven o'clock sharp
    filo sustantivo masculino
    1 (cutting) edge
    de doble filo, double-edged
    ♦ Locuciones: al filo, (muy cerca de) al filo de la locura, on the edge of madness
    ' filo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    arma
    - doble
    - agudo
    - canto
    - dentado
    - embotado
    English:
    blunt
    - double-edged
    - edge
    - lip
    - razor
    - double
    - knife
    - two
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [borde] (cutting) edge;
    sacar filo a algo to sharpen sth;
    ser un arma de doble filo o [m5] de dos filos to be a two-edged o double-edged sword;
    en el filo de la navaja on a knife edge
    2. RP Fam [novio] main squeeze
    ♦ al filo de loc prep
    [en el tiempo] just before;
    al filo de la medianoche at the stroke of midnight;
    al filo de la desesperación on the verge of despair;
    se quedaron al filo de la mayoría absoluta they were just short of an absolute majority
    * * *
    m
    1 de mesa edge
    2 de navaja cutting edge;
    de doble filo double-edged sword;
    estar en el filo de la navaja be on a knife edge;
    sacar filo a sharpen, put an edge on
    3
    :
    al filo de las siete around 7 o’clock;
    al filo del mediodía twelve o’clock on the dot, on the stroke of twelve
    * * *
    filo nm
    1) : cutting edge, blade
    2) : edge
    al filo del escritorio: at the edge of the desk
    al filo de la medianoche: at the stroke of midnight

    Spanish-English dictionary > filo

  • 52 abogado sin escrúpulos

    (n.) = shyster, shark lawyer
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    Ex. If you find one of these 'shark lawyers' who can win any case for the right price, hire him immediately.
    * * *
    (n.) = shyster, shark lawyer

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Ex: If you find one of these 'shark lawyers' who can win any case for the right price, hire him immediately.

    Spanish-English dictionary > abogado sin escrúpulos

  • 53 leguleyo

    m.
    pettifogging lawyer, pettifogger, shyster lawyer, shyster.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 peyorativo pettifogging solicitor
    * * *
    leguleyo, -a
    SM / F pettifogging lawyer, shyster (EEUU)
    * * *
    - ya masculino, femenino (pey) pettifogging lawyer
    * * *
    = shyster, shark lawyer.
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    Ex. If you find one of these 'shark lawyers' who can win any case for the right price, hire him immediately.
    * * *
    - ya masculino, femenino (pey) pettifogging lawyer
    * * *
    = shyster, shark lawyer.

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Ex: If you find one of these 'shark lawyers' who can win any case for the right price, hire him immediately.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    ( pey); pettifogging lawyer, shyster ( AmE)
    * * *
    leguleyo, -a nm,f
    Pey bad lawyer
    * * *
    shyster fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > leguleyo

  • 54 picapleitos

    adj.
    quarrelsome.
    m.&f. s&pl.
    1 bad lawyer (Pejorative).
    2 shyster lawyer, barrater, barrator, mouthpiece.
    * * *
    1 second-rate lawyer
    * * *
    SMF INV pey (=pleitista) litigious person; (=abogado) shark lawyer
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (pl picapleitos) (fam) pettifogger, shyster (AmE colloq)
    * * *
    = shyster, shark lawyer.
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    Ex. If you find one of these 'shark lawyers' who can win any case for the right price, hire him immediately.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino (pl picapleitos) (fam) pettifogger, shyster (AmE colloq)
    * * *
    = shyster, shark lawyer.

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Ex: If you find one of these 'shark lawyers' who can win any case for the right price, hire him immediately.

    * * *
    pettifogger, shyster ( AmE colloq)
    * * *
    picapleitos nmf inv
    Fam Pey shyster (lawyer)
    * * *
    m/f inv fam
    shyster fam, Br
    unethical lawyer

    Spanish-English dictionary > picapleitos

  • 55 político sin escrúpulos

    (n.) = shyster
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    * * *
    (n.) = shyster

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Spanish-English dictionary > político sin escrúpulos

  • 56 problema económico

    (n.) = economic problem, financial problem
    Ex. The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    * * *
    (n.) = economic problem, financial problem

    Ex: The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Spanish-English dictionary > problema económico

  • 57 sinvergüenza

    adj.
    shameless, barefaced, brazen, cynical.
    intj.
    you little beggar.
    f. & m.
    1 scoundrel, son of a gun, rogue, shyster.
    2 shameless person, shameless individual, cheeky devil, cheeky person.
    * * *
    1 (pícaro) shameless
    2 (descarado) cheeky
    1 (pícaro) rotter, swine, louse
    2 (descarado) cheeky devil
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ (=pillo) rotten; (=descarado) brazen, shameless
    2.
    SMF (=pillo) scoundrel, rogue; (=canalla) rotter *; (=insolente) cheeky devil

    ¡sinvergüenza! — hum you villain!

    * * *
    I
    a) ( canalla)
    b) (hum) ( pícaro) naughty
    II
    masculino y femenino
    a) ( canalla) swine (colloq), scoundrel (dated); (estafador, ladrón) crook (colloq)
    b) (hum) ( pícaro) rascal (hum), little devil o rascal (hum)
    * * *
    = scoundrel, shameless, shyster, rascal, scallywag [scalawag, -USA], rapscallion, thug, cad.
    Ex. Here came every sort of human ingredient -- sturdy homesteaders, skilled craftsmen, precious scoundrels.
    Ex. Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    Ex. And although they may pose themselves as very religious, they are simply rascals.
    Ex. In other words, we either have morons or thugs running the White House -- or perhaps one moron, one thug, and a smattering of scalawags in between.
    Ex. In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
    Ex. Poole was a notorious gang leader & street thug, murdered by enemies of similar background.
    Ex. Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.
    * * *
    I
    a) ( canalla)
    b) (hum) ( pícaro) naughty
    II
    masculino y femenino
    a) ( canalla) swine (colloq), scoundrel (dated); (estafador, ladrón) crook (colloq)
    b) (hum) ( pícaro) rascal (hum), little devil o rascal (hum)
    * * *
    = scoundrel, shameless, shyster, rascal, scallywag [scalawag, -USA], rapscallion, thug, cad.

    Ex: Here came every sort of human ingredient -- sturdy homesteaders, skilled craftsmen, precious scoundrels.

    Ex: Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.
    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    Ex: And although they may pose themselves as very religious, they are simply rascals.
    Ex: In other words, we either have morons or thugs running the White House -- or perhaps one moron, one thug, and a smattering of scalawags in between.
    Ex: In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
    Ex: Poole was a notorious gang leader & street thug, murdered by enemies of similar background.
    Ex: Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.

    * * *
    1
    (canalla): ¡qué hombre más sinvergüenza! what a swine! ( colloq)
    2 ( hum) ‹niño› (travieso) naughty
    1 (canalla) swine ( colloq), scoundrel ( dated); (estafador, ladrón) crook ( colloq)
    2 ( hum) (pícaro) rascal ( hum), little devil o rascal ( hum)
    * * *

    sinvergüenza adjetivo
    a) ( canalla):

    ◊ ¡qué tipo más sinvergüenza! what a swine! (colloq)

    b) (hum) ( pícaro) naughty

    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino
    a) ( canalla) swine (colloq);

    (estafador, ladrón) crook (colloq)
    b) (hum) ( pícaro) rascal (hum)

    sinvergüenza
    I adjetivo
    1 pey (granuja, inmoral) shameless
    2 hum (pillo) cheeky: pero qué sinvergüenza eres, what a rogue you are
    II mf
    1 (inmoral, sin escrúpulos) crook
    2 (pillo, descarado) rogue
    ' sinvergüenza' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conchudo
    - redomada
    - redomado
    - atorrante
    - gandalla
    English:
    scoundrel
    - so-and-so
    - crook
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [canalla] shameless
    2. [fresco, descarado] cheeky
    ♦ nmf
    1. [canalla] scoundrel;
    ser un sinvergüenza to be shameless
    2. [fresco, descarado] cheeky person;
    ser un sinvergüenza to be a cheeky rascal o so-and-so;
    ese sinvergüenza me ha quitado el bocadillo that cheeky rascal o so-and-so stole my sandwich
    * * *
    I adj shameless, unscrupulous
    II m/f swine;
    ¡qué sinvergüenza! ( descarado) what a nerve!
    * * *
    1) descarado: shameless, brazen, impudent
    2) travieso: naughty
    1) : rogue, scoundrel
    2) : brat, rascal
    * * *
    sinvergüenza n rogue

    Spanish-English dictionary > sinvergüenza

  • 58 zalamero

    adj.
    flattering, fawning, smooth-spoken, cajoling.
    m.
    flatterer, wheedler, cajoler, soft-soaper.
    * * *
    1 charming, winning
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 charmer
    \
    ponerse zalamero,-a to turn on the charm
    * * *
    1. (f. - zalamera)
    adj.
    2. (f. - zalamera)
    noun
    * * *
    zalamero, -a
    1.
    ADJ (=lisonjero) flattering; (=relamido) suave; pey slimy
    2.
    SM / F flatterer; pey slimeball *
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo < palabras> flattering
    * * *
    Ex. His supporters call him a ' smoothie,' while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo < palabras> flattering
    * * *

    Ex: His supporters call him a ' smoothie,' while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.

    * * *
    ‹palabras› flattering
    ¡qué zalamero estás hoy! you're being very nice (to me) today! ( iro)
    * * *

    zalamero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo ‹ palabras› flattering;

    ¡qué zalamero estás! you're being very nice (to me)! (iro)
    zalamero,-a
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino flatterer, fawner: mi hija es una zalamera, my daughter knows how to flatter people
    II adjetivo flattering, fawning

    ' zalamero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    guachinanga
    - guachinango
    - zalamera
    English:
    slimy
    - smooth
    - suave
    * * *
    zalamero, -a
    ♦ adj
    flattering, fawning
    ♦ nm,f
    flatterer
    * * *
    I adj
    1 flattering
    2 empalagoso syrupy, sugary
    II m, zalamera f flatterer, sweet talker
    * * *
    zalamero, -ra adj
    : flattering, fawning
    zalamero, -ra n
    : flatterer

    Spanish-English dictionary > zalamero

  • 59 farandulero

    m.
    1 actor, player.
    2 idle tattler, deceitful talker (timador).
    3 strolling player, strolling actor.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (actor) strolling player
    2 (hablador y engañador) confidence trickster, con man
    * * *
    farandulero, -a
    1.
    ADJ LAm
    * = farolero 1.
    2. SM / F
    1) (Teat) ( Hist) strolling player
    2) * (=timador) confidence trickster, con man, swindler
    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    ( Ven fam) socialite, social butterfly ( hum)
    * * *
    farandulero, -a adj
    RP, Ven Fam [fanfarrón] boastful, bragging

    Spanish-English dictionary > farandulero

  • 60 estafador

    • cheat
    • cheater
    • chiseler
    • con artist
    • con man
    • confidence man
    • defaulter
    • defrauder
    • faker
    • falsifier
    • gyp
    • gypper
    • gypseous
    • juggler
    • racket press
    • racketeer
    • scammer
    • sharper
    • swindler
    • thimble
    • thimblerigger
    • thin
    • Welsh rabbit
    • welsher
    • Welshman

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > estafador

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