con game
Example Sentences
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Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023
The movies are an industry, a con game with a half-guilty conscience.
From New York Times • May 13, 2021
In this 1994 novel, the very title is subversive, a Bengali corruption of the English “Herbert,” and protagonist Harbart Sarkar runs a con game: “Conversations With the Dead.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019
In the mid-’90s, Raniere signed a consent order that didn’t admit wrongdoing, but did force him to agree he’d never initiate another con game of that exact variety.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2018
Before I get to a serious application, I’d like to mention another con game which works because of confusion about conditional probability.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
