A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
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Examples for "sting "
1 There is a simple way to test this: let something sting you.
2 The disappointment was unavoidable; but the sting of it lies in yourself.
3 Here's the good news, the risk of a sting is pretty low.
4 Fear not that my aim is pleasure; this will sting soon enough.
5 Within days, federal authorities launched a sting that culminated in Balkany's arrest.
1 According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
2 According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con .
3 You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
4 Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
5 But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
1 But in the case of the Harrises, hustle is a family thing.
2 The point is, this no longer looks like a fly-by-night hustle job.
3 Bradshaws were in great evidence everywhere; all was hustle and glad animation.
4 This is the City Hall Police Headquarters again; hustle it up, please.
5 The Mavs' bench provided the hustle in the big 34-point second quarter.
1 He'd gyp me for ten dollars, but he'd probably come for five.
2 I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
3 As I have said, he was a devil of a gyp .
4 The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
5 Gyp walked across the room and put her hand on the bell.
1 This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
2 I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side.
3 Because of your gestures I believe you are trying to bunco this court.
4 Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco .
5 Let him bunco me into putting through that dam for him!
1 Dr. Deacon gave us some flimflam about how good our boy was-weknew that.
2 We joined up with that pair of flimflam artists and traveled south with them.
3 Coolidge-veteranthief, flimflam man, and law clerk-wasthe self-appointed elder statesman of the group.
4 The head of Hollywood Star Productions continued weaving his flimflam .
5 The way I see it, this is all flimflam .
1 There were no burglaries, gambling, picking of pockets, bunko swindling or handbook betting.
2 The idea that children of queer parents do poorly in school is also bunko .
3 While Benton was photographing Gibson and Hatch, John observed the bunko swindler more closely.
4 He bosses everything, gambling, stick-ups, bookmakers, pickpockets, bunko men, street walking women and dope peddling.
5 He had done time in seven states, always for theft or burglary or con games or bunko .
1 Sometimes another form of confidence trick is adopted, which is invariably successful.
2 No doubt they knew that his dizzying promotion was just a confidence trick .
3 I realized, then, that I had fallen for a confidence trick .
4 The queen's formal power is a kind of confidence trick in which almost everyone acquiesces.
5 This is the confidence trick under another form.
1 A more useful and abiding analogy is that of the confidence game .
2 Banking is a confidence game , even if done soberly and responsibly.
3 I'll be --if I will be taken in on any confidence game .
4 That man has been wanted for a year for putting over a confidence game .
5 The perceived need to play the confidence game supersedes the normal concerns of economic policy.
1 This is a con game being played by the Democrats, Trump added.
2 A hot-and-cold con game For some, the adore-ignore syndrome is a manipulative strategy.
3 None o' that Christian con game goes around where I am.
4 He would have died for a hollow farce, a ruse, a con game !
5 Maybe Sergeant Wigg's con game is closer to the truth here than we think.'
1 They judged by the calibre of the men interested, and branded it a bunco game .
2 Damn it, I'm sick of the bunco game , Bat-
3 Then there were the fools who took the organized bunco game seriously, honoring and respecting it.
4 Society, as organized, was a vast bunco game .
5 I don't want to run any bunco game .
6 What sort of a bunco game is this?
7 They were easy game for the others, who saw clearly and knew the bunco game for what it was.
8 They were ready and eager to bite at any sort of bunco game I saw fit to play upon them.
9 This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
10 Bunch of sharpers set about to rook me on a frame-up- abuncogame.
11 No room there for little sharpers' tricks and bunco games .
12 "Look here, Selwyn," he broke out, "do you like this bunco game ? "
13 "I thought perhaps you had rented it for your bunco game , " retorted he.
14 "We'd been talking of a bunco game when you came up."
15 "Well, Strout ought to know what a good bunco game is," said Quincy.
16 "I don't like the methods," replied Selwyn promptly; "but you are mistaken when you think it's a bunco game .
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