con man

noun

: a person who tricks other people in order to get their money : con artist

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And what happened to Scales has very little to do with Mickey Haller, and more to do with what Scales is: a con man. Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Oct. 2024 The volume centered on his great-uncle Freeman Bernstein, an inveterate con man who in the mid-1930s tricked the Nazi government into buying almost $150,000 in nickel — a metal badly needed for armament production — that was in fact scrap metal. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 July 2024 Yet Ronald Richter, the Austrian physicist whom Perón chose to head his nascent nuclear program, turned out to be part con man and part madman. Jacques E. C. Hymans, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2012 Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for con man 

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“Con man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/con%20man. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.

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