con game

Example Sentences

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"Stefan Pildes promoted SantaCon as an event grounded in charitable giving, but instead of donating the millions of dollars he raised, he ran his own con game," US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Even by the low standards of the con game, Julia Lyons stands out as one of the most diabolical.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022

These movies ask: To what extent is love a con game?

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2018

“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