confidence trickster
noun
British
: a person who tricks other people in order to get their money : con artist
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His own father, famously, had been a confidence trickster, and le Carré was therefore all too well equipped to mount a lifelong investigation into the uses of roguery, not to mention sleights of hand, some of them amounting to a national disgrace.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
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