A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.
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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 I am a convict ; I have been nineteen years in the galleys.
2 It held the court was correct to convict McKevitt for directing terrorism.
3 The average labor value of the convict is forty-five cents a day.
4 The figure was dressed in the coarse striped suit of a convict .
5 The warden bowed stiffly and directed a guard to produce the convict .
1 She passed away while an inmate at Moccasin Bend earlier this year.
2 It said there needed to be close security scrutiny of each inmate .
3 Mr Lotu-Liga said the staff member was not fighting with an inmate .
4 It was not clear why the inmate would have started the fire.
5 She said the inmate had been threatened repeatedly, and requested a transfer.
1 They would never have me, a branded jailbird , in the Imperial Yeomanry!
2 Yet, during his most recent court appearance, Nair sang a different jailbird song.
3 Parents send their children to pose for family album snapshots alongside the jailbird .
4 The stranger halted with his jailbird companion some five or six feet away.
5 Can you imagine ole jailbird gramps telling stories at Christmas dinner?
1 The yardbird bravado made him seem inauthentic, potentially dangerous.
2 Charlie Yardbird has been on the go since the summer but he could run into a place.
3 'Can you make me look like an aging yardbird ? ' Griff said.
4 Stoke didn't even notice the gathering of yardbirds behind him, all come to witness this prison miracle in the making.
5 The company added it will close other specialty outlets, including five YardBIRDS stores and a bath remodeling business known as HD Bath.
1 I hope it hasn't been a problem for you, your father being a gaolbird .
2 Many were gaolbirds , having chosen the Navy over more gaol time for debt.
3 Anyhow, here we are, two gaolbirds , Bobby, disgraced forever.
4 'Tis a runaway gaolbird by the look of him for whom we have no sort of use here.
1 You take 'em all in, but this one is a jail bird !
2 Did you ever see a jail bird dressed in a Homburg?
3 Originally published as Ex- jail bird hosts 'Hot for Teacher' night
4 Does he want a jail bird or does he want a hot bird? she sighs.
5 But there's nothing sensible in inviting a jail bird to the house, and having him stay all night.
1 Eventually, these pedestaled scales earn their namesake as chickenheads-theneck a spindly stem and the plate a rounded, squawking yard bird .
2 All four cases involved women and are believed to have resulted from exposure to sick or dead back- yard birds .
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