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Meanings of con trick in English
Attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust; exploites characteristics of the human psyche, such as credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, and greed.
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Examples for "con"
Examples for "con"
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According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
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According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con.
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You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
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Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
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But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
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This scam could be used for other products with similar credit offers.
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The scam involves criminals debiting R99 from citizens' bank accounts without authorisation.
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QUESTION: My landlord is trying to scam me into fixing his property.
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It was an internet scam conducted the brick-and-mortar way, the FTC said.
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Just 12 months ago, he was implicated in a tender fraud scam.
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Use what stratagem you please; make it the experiment of your life.
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He dared not extend the stratagem to the apartment of the Queen.
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Concealment or stratagem could no longer avail; the chase was fairly up.
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When the booty had been shared he put in use his stratagem.
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Silk listened, wondering what was going on, and dreading some new stratagem.
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You have to work your way in or swindle your way in.
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He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.
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But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle.
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Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle-therestaurants.
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One man said there was a swindle somewhere - no fox terriers.
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The more I think about this game, the more it feels like a grift.
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In its purest form it is a two-man grift.
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Not above the occasional grift, but you'd understand that.
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I know you don't run a grift show.
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He made her grift at once-ithad to be the badger game the way she was planting her story.
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Yet Wayward Pines is mostly being described as a ripoff of Twin Peaks.
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The system high-frequency trading replaced was an even bigger ripoff.
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Reservoir Dogs, Fess up Tarantino, it's a total ripoff of Ringo Lam's City on Fire.
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And it was definitely a Lord of the Rings ripoff-thebrownies are basically Merry and Pippin.
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Stealing features is nothing new for social networks, but it's rare to see a ripoff this blatant.
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Science ministers come and go without saying a word about this rip-off.
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Someone has opened and used the Magimix rip-off from the late 90s.
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With no improvement in service, is this a record for rip-off Ireland?
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Gift vouchers: It's high time this rip-off of voucher expiry was stopped.
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While prices are attractive, pleasure can vanish if Africans perceive a rip-off.
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Sometimes another form of confidence trick is adopted, which is invariably successful.
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No doubt they knew that his dizzying promotion was just a confidence trick.
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I realized, then, that I had fallen for a confidence trick.
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The queen's formal power is a kind of confidence trick in which almost everyone acquiesces.
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This is the confidence trick under another form.
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A more useful and abiding analogy is that of the confidence game.
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Banking is a confidence game, even if done soberly and responsibly.
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I'll be --if I will be taken in on any confidence game.
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That man has been wanted for a year for putting over a confidence game.
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The perceived need to play the confidence game supersedes the normal concerns of economic policy.
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A variation on the oldest and best female confidence scheme in the books.
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Never had it occurred to me that imposters among Negroes might seize upon the idea of missing relatives as the basis for a confidence scheme.
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This is a con game being played by the Democrats, Trump added.
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A hot-and-cold con game For some, the adore-ignore syndrome is a manipulative strategy.
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None o' that Christian con game goes around where I am.
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He would have died for a hollow farce, a ruse, a con game!
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Maybe Sergeant Wigg's con game is closer to the truth here than we think.'
Usage of con trick in English
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Northern powerhouse to northern con trick is what you really mean.
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There is only so long the SNP con trick can last.
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Depression's most successful con trick is to convince its victims that it's their own fault.
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Even if they are all a big con trick.'
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Is this all just a big con trick?
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Apple, they say, is a giant con trick.
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But Britain's largest pensioners' group said the changes were a " con trick" and would do nothing to help existing retirees.
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He did so by paying new investors' capital out to old investors as revenue, a chain-letter con trick that could not last.
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Minister for Health James Reilly has been accused of "massaging figures" and perpetrating a " con trick" on "rocketing" hospital waiting lists.
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And watch out for rorts, that's frauds or con tricks.
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Like one of those con tricks, when you take your eye off the ball for a second and the whole game changes.
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