A fraudulent business scheme.
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Examples for "con"
Examples for "con"
1According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
2According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con.
3You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
4Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
5But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
1And that word, like 'rook', has its origins in the word 'rock'.
2Unlike the rook, crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
3Obviously there must be a rook in every row and every column.
4Up to yesterday I had never shot a rook in my life.
5A rook was picked up and slammed down, taking Matthew's second knight.
1He'd gyp me for ten dollars, but he'd probably come for five.
2I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
3As I have said, he was a devil of a gyp.
4The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
5Gyp walked across the room and put her hand on the bell.
1You have to work your way in or swindle your way in.
2He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.
3But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle.
4Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle-therestaurants.
5One man said there was a swindle somewhere - no fox terriers.
1Typically, such charges are levied against individuals and companies that defraud investors.
2The teacher would corrupt his pupil, and the guardian defraud his ward.
3Your privilege ought not to be used to defraud the other creditors.
4And I'm afraid there may be a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
5He has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
1I must say, it has been giving me some gip.'
2As for the 'gip' who was stabbed, nothing more was heard of it; she 'traipsed' off with the rest.
3One fiendish creature drew her scissors, and, using them like a stiletto, drove the sharp point into a sister 'gip's' head.
4GIP is an investment fund founded by Credit Suisse and General Electric.
5I glanced at Gip, but Gip was looking at a magic rocking-horse.
1So he began to try 'Hey diddle diddle', but it wouldn't do.
2Tramp, tramp, tramp went the rhythmic feet; diddle-diddle-dee went the fiddles.
3The origin of the diddle is referrable to the infancy of the Human Race.
4Rather a small, but still a scientific diddle is this.
5The origin of the diddle is referable to the infancy of the Human Race.
1This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
2I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side.
3Because of your gestures I believe you are trying to bunco this court.
4Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.
5Let him bunco me into putting through that dam for him!
1With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
2We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble?
3Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
4Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
5Attempts had been made to "nobble" a referee.
1They would victimize you, they would blame you, they would accuse you.
2And it is easier to victimize children than it is adults.
3Shady advertising certainly can victimize people who do not understand how reverse mortgages work.
4I don't want the society to victimize me when I refuse to be victimized.
5I did not victimize your daughter and you know it.
1The mulct to be imposed upon the parish of Epinal was never exacted.
2The bondes came then, according to agreement, to pay the mulct.
3My remark was an epitogram-anaxis-akind of mulct'em in parvo.
4When he is warned on a jury, he had rather pay the mulct than appear.
5No mulct was paid for Harek's house-servants, and the rock was declared to be Grankel's.
1I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3Out with the goldbrick first.
4We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1And as for those rails Cardigan managed to hornswoggle me out of-
2But 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.
3Hornswoggled me out of seven letters.
4"I'll be hornswoggled if I can stand this much longer," he gasped out to Frank.
1Leto smiled, This is Apollo's work but don't short-change yourself.
2The Tories will be accused of trying to short-change Scotland.
3But will these Republicans opt to short-change their middle class political base the same way?
4The problem is, these foods not only dent the budget, they can short-change you nutritionally.
5In what way does this short-change the public?
1This scam could be used for other products with similar credit offers.
2The scam involves criminals debiting R99 from citizens' bank accounts without authorisation.
3QUESTION: My landlord is trying to scam me into fixing his property.
4It was an internet scam conducted the brick-and-mortar way, the FTC said.
5Just 12 months ago, he was implicated in a tender fraud scam.
6And he said the scam is vulnerable until something happens on Sunday.
7It is good facebook wont allow these scam ads on the platform.
8More advice on scam prevention is available on the NZ Police website.
9One or two papers held General Sahib responsible for the coffin scam.
10AOL's Weinstein said he had no further information on the scam site.
11What was the result of the investigation into the Limpopo borehole scam?
12But he accepted there could be significant numbers involved in this scam.
13The owners, who thought Rodríguez was pulling a scam, called the police.
14And all it took to break this scam was a text message.
15Another scam, involving the Finance Ministry, may have netted a similar amount.
16Better yet, why not join a scam that also incriminated his bosses?
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