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
And Dr. Ike, as he was known, is a charismatic and especially dangerous type of confidence man because he has a medical degree.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2021
Wedick Jr. supervised what he thought would be a one-day undercover operation designed to entice notorious confidence man Phil Kitzer into passing along a stolen bond or two.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017
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
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.
