con game
Example Sentences
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Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023
Her worst obstacle is the skepticism of her new neighbors, who fear she’s running a con game, but this allows Belorusets one of her best wisecracks.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022
Instead we get an extremely neat, generally perky, overly cautious take on a musical that, being about the con game of love and music, needs more danger in the telling.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022
These two people are recklessly messing with the world as if it's just another con game, in which they'll take their profits before moving on to the next chapter of their spoiled, mindless lives.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2019
If this is done knowingly and with intent to defraud, this is an illegal con game.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.