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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