A swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim.
1But he will be a confidence man of the most subtle character.
2According to the circumstances, sometimes an honest man, sometimes a confidence man.
3He was a noted confidence man, who lived by preying upon the community.
4The confidence man sells confidence, and the currency is trust.
5He was known as something of a confidence man.
6There are professional criminals of a different grade, like the forger and the confidence man.
7But the confidence man comes in darker manifestations too.
8You, sir, are nothing more than a confidence man.
9Or maybe a confidence man... She smiled at him.
10Sure as sugar, that fellow is a confidence man.
11Herman Melville may offer a clue in his most charismatic confidence man, Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick.
12The Montezumas were compelled every little while to pay a freight-bill for the Spanish confidence man.
13When he died in 1933, he was Broadway's leading wit, a successful playwright & confidence man.
14I think you are a confidence man, and are trying to take in a poor countryman.
15He is a confidence man, with one charge of assault with attempt to kill against him.
16The role of a confidence man is just to do that-tobuild confidence in the sucker.
Translations for confidence man