confidence man
Example Sentences
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Prosecutors, though, said Tunstall’s behavior was “tantamount to the historic traveling confidence man, pitching a shingle in a new community until discovery, and then moving on to engage in similar fraudulent conduct.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2023
The definitive account of the confidence man Haberman portrays is decades away.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022
“He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2021
The innovator has always been part savior, part confidence man.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2015
He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
