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Meanings of confidence man in English

Portuguese
vigarista
Catalan
enganyabadocs
Spanish
timador
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A swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim.

vigarista
Usage of confidence man in English
1
But he will be a confidence man of the most subtle character.
Analyzing Character / The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in...
2
According to the circumstances, sometimes an honest man, sometimes a confidence man.
The Follies of Love
3
He was a noted confidence man, who lived by preying upon the community.
Paul the Peddler; Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
4
The confidence man sells confidence, and the currency is trust.
Independent.ie
5
He was known as something of a confidence man.
Anthill: a novel
6
There are professional criminals of a different grade, like the forger and the confidence man.
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
7
But the confidence man comes in darker manifestations too.
Independent.ie
8
You, sir, are nothing more than a confidence man.
White fire
9
Or maybe a confidence man... She smiled at him.
The Hustler
10
Sure as sugar, that fellow is a confidence man.
The Boys of Bellwood School; Or, Frank Jordan's Triumph
11
Herman Melville may offer a clue in his most charismatic confidence man, Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick.
Independent.ie
12
The Montezumas were compelled every little while to pay a freight-bill for the Spanish confidence man.
Comic History of the United States
13
When he died in 1933, he was Broadway's leading wit, a successful playwright & confidence man.
The new yorker
14
I think you are a confidence man, and are trying to take in a poor countryman.
Walter Sherwood's Probation
15
He is a confidence man, with one charge of assault with attempt to kill against him.
The Case and the Girl
16
The role of a confidence man is just to do that-tobuild confidence in the sucker.
The capitol game
Translations for confidence man
Portuguese
vigarista