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Meanings of confidence game in English
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
Synonyms
Examples for "sting"
Examples for "sting"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
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.
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.'
Usage of confidence game in English
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.
6
You play dat confidence game and dey'll rat ye-see?
7
You have been trying a bold confidence game.
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Describes his confidence game... View Article
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That might not be enough at this stage of the geopolitical confidence game, if you ask visionary writer Ellis.
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It was a confidence game.
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The whole thing is a confidence game, and while confidence games can produce genuine results, those depend on, well, confidence.
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His was the first playing on a colossal scale of the now worn-out "get rich quick" confidence game.
13
The success which at the outset of party welfare attended this legalized confidence game drew into it more and more players.
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The New Yorker, May 30, 1925 P. 1 How a confidence game was worked on an alienist.
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But I felt sure that he had heard enough to warrant the belief that some kind of confidence game was being discussed.
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It commenced with robbing birds' nests and orchards, and ended with the confidence game for which he was last sent to jail.