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
“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
Manson was clever and glib, a stir-wise and sophisticated confidence man who exploited the human material and social climate in order to achieve his ends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
Is it a qualitative difference between our small daily deceptions and the wiles of the confidence man, or is it just a simple matter of degree?
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2016
He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
