con game
Example Sentences
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Instead we get an extremely neat, generally perky, overly cautious take on a musical that, being about the con game of love and music, needs more danger in the telling.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022
The only ones to suffer here might be the institutions of higher learning themselves, many of which are running a con game for their own financial benefit.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
These two people are recklessly messing with the world as if it's just another con game, in which they'll take their profits before moving on to the next chapter of their spoiled, mindless lives.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2019
“It’s a con game they’re playing,” he said Tuesday.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2018
In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
