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

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

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

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022

And despite a few attempts on the director’s part to distinguish authentic art from his parody of art as a vast con game, the film ends on a profoundly anti-art note.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

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