Thesaurus / con
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
“Chaplet”—a wreath or garland signed for by him in his ambitious hopes—expresses his birth-date by Con.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
Mister Public is further deceived in believing that the 'con man' who has a pitch nearby is connected with the enterprise.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
There was a large collection of ladies, amongst whom were two of the most celebrated in the capital—Seora Maria Con.
Capella is lo-cat-ed in the con-stell-a-tion which you call Auriga.
JUBILATION, U.S.A.G. L. VANDENBURG
Con them over a few times, and they will turn into letters of light.
Con., oh, Con., you don't think—you can't think that she loved that—that beast?
THE DIAMOND COTERIELAWRENCE L. LYNCH
I drank hard all that day after they told me, Con., but not one drop since; not one.
THE DIAMOND COTERIELAWRENCE L. LYNCH
No, Con., that's of no use, I should know myself for a liar all the time.
THE DIAMOND COTERIELAWRENCE L. LYNCH
Now, Con., my father thinks you infallible, and you can do anything with Frank.
THE DIAMOND COTERIELAWRENCE L. LYNCH
The four interior figures, viz., 9091 is a clear case of Con.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
WORDS RELATED TO CON
- adulate
- beslaver
- blandish
- bootlick
- brownnose
- build up
- butter up
- cajole
- cater to
- charm
- con
- court
- fawn
- get next to
- glorify
- grovel
- humor
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- massage
- oil
- overpraise
- play up to
- praise
- rub the right way
- salve
- sell
- snow
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- toady
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
- artifice
- bamboozlement
- barratry
- blackmail
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- craft
- deceit
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- extortion
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwinking
- hustle
- imposture
- line
- misrepresentation
- racket
- scam
- sell
- shakedown
- sham
- sharp practice
- skunk
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spuriousness
- sting
- string
- swindle
- swindling
- treachery
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