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Meanings of confidence 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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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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But you knew where you were with death; in no way was it a confidence trick.
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Mr Zapatero said the PP had played "a massive confidence trick" on the nation.
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But it can feel like a confidence trick.
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The confidence trick In politics as well as in football, confidence matters when it comes to predictions.
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Its plot centres round a confidence trick that deceives the audience as well as the fictional victim.
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It is a confidence trick, you see?
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Was it the confidence trick?
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The idea that there may be something whimsical about the Irish is the biggest confidence trick since the South Sea Bubble.
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Never before has a country so justly and so richly deserved the repudiation of a debt incurred by the confidence trick.
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There's a man lives there whom I did out of a hundred pounds-just a little variation of the confidence trick.
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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1966-1973) It had an original concept: the espionage series as confidence trick romp.
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