confidence trick
Example Sentences
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He was jailed for 10 years for perpetrating a "callous confidence trick", the judge said.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2018
“This report is a sham, this report is a whitewash, this report is a confidence trick dressed up as independent scrutiny and given invisible clothes of reliability,” she said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2012
Luxury brands are the biggest confidence trick in the great panoply of modern consumerist cons.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2012
Arthur Ford-Batey, Alan Hunt and Ian Yorkshire were sentenced earlier at Norwich Crown Court Three men involved in an elaborate confidence trick in which a Christian philanthropist from Norfolk lost £12m have been jailed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2012
Public speaking, like writing, is in many ways a confidence trick.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
