Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.
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Examples for "con "
Examples for "con "
1 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.
1 And that word, like ' rook ' , has its origins in the word 'rock'.
2 Unlike the rook , crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
3 Obviously there must be a rook in every row and every column.
4 Up to yesterday I had never shot a rook in my life.
5 A rook was picked up and slammed down, taking Matthew's second knight.
1 This scam could be used for other products with similar credit offers.
2 The scam involves criminals debiting R99 from citizens' bank accounts without authorisation.
3 QUESTION: My landlord is trying to scam me into fixing his property.
4 It was an internet scam conducted the brick-and-mortar way, the FTC said.
5 Just 12 months ago, he was implicated in a tender fraud scam .
1 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.
1 You have to work your way in or swindle your way in.
2 He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.
3 But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle .
4 Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle - the restaurants .
5 One man said there was a swindle somewhere - no fox terriers.
1 Typically, such charges are levied against individuals and companies that defraud investors.
2 The teacher would corrupt his pupil, and the guardian defraud his ward.
3 Your privilege ought not to be used to defraud the other creditors.
4 And I'm afraid there may be a charge of conspiracy to defraud .
5 He has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of conspiracy to defraud .
1 I must say, it has been giving me some gip . '
2 As for the ' gip ' who was stabbed, nothing more was heard of it; she 'traipsed' off with the rest.
3 One fiendish creature drew her scissors, and, using them like a stiletto, drove the sharp point into a sister ' gip 's ' head.
4 GIP is an investment fund founded by Credit Suisse and General Electric.
5 I glanced at Gip , but Gip was looking at a magic rocking-horse.
1 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!
1 With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
2 We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble ?
3 Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
4 Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
5 Attempts had been made to " nobble " a referee.
1 They would victimize you, they would blame you, they would accuse you.
2 And it is easier to victimize children than it is adults.
3 Shady advertising certainly can victimize people who do not understand how reverse mortgages work.
4 I don't want the society to victimize me when I refuse to be victimized.
5 I did not victimize your daughter and you know it.
1 The mulct to be imposed upon the parish of Epinal was never exacted.
2 The bondes came then, according to agreement, to pay the mulct .
3 My remark was an epitogram-anaxis-akind of mulct 'em in parvo.
4 When he is warned on a jury, he had rather pay the mulct than appear.
5 No mulct was paid for Harek's house-servants, and the rock was declared to be Grankel's.
1 I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2 I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3 Out with the goldbrick first.
4 We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked , and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5 He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1 And as for those rails Cardigan managed to hornswoggle me out of-
2 But don't forget, boys, when you-all want me to hornswoggle Wall Street another flutter, all you-all have to do is whisper the word.
3 Hornswoggled me out of seven letters.
4 "I'll be hornswoggled if I can stand this much longer," he gasped out to Frank.
1 Leto smiled, This is Apollo's work but don't short - change yourself.
2 The Tories will be accused of trying to short - change Scotland.
3 But will these Republicans opt to short - change their middle class political base the same way?
4 The problem is, these foods not only dent the budget, they can short - change you nutritionally.
5 In what way does this short - change the public?
1 So he began to try 'Hey diddle diddle ' , but it wouldn't do.
2 Tramp, tramp, tramp went the rhythmic feet; diddle - diddle - dee went the fiddles.
3 The origin of the diddle is referrable to the infancy of the Human Race.
4 Rather a small, but still a scientific diddle is this.
5 The origin of the diddle is referable to the infancy of the Human Race.
6 One, Cora Teague is a big girl and free to diddle whoever she wants.
7 HEY diddle diddle , the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon.
8 But it must be very pretty nonsense, and not like that silly hey diddle diddle !
9 For instance, you can diddle with the picture after it is taken, blurring a background, say.
10 Here again is a very clever diddle , of which the simplicity is not its least recommendation.
11 He'd diddle , and dawdle, and stutter, but oh!
12 A very simple diddle , indeed, is this.
13 Again, quite a respectable diddle is this.
14 Watching you diddle on the kitchen floor.
15 A very good diddle is this.
16 A very minute diddle is this.
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