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Synonyms & Antonyms of conned
(Entry 1 of 3)
- usually candidates con their entire campaign speech, right down to the jokes they supposedly ad-lib
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- harked back (to),
- minded
- [chiefly dialect],
- recalled,
- recollected,
- relived,
- remembered,
- reminisced (about),
- retained,
- thought (of)
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- seemed to be conning his face for any sign of uncertainty
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conned
verb (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of conned (Entry 2 of 3)
- a fly-by-night operator who had conned hundreds of would-be homeowners out of their hard-earned money
Synonyms for conned
- beat,
- bilked,
- bled,
- cheated,
- chiseled
- (or chiselled),
- choused,
- cozened,
- defrauded,
- did,
- diddled,
- did in,
- euchred,
- fiddled,
- fleeced,
- flimflammed,
- gaffed,
- hosed
- [slang],
- hustled,
- mulcted,
- nobbled
- [British slang],
- plucked,
- reamed,
- ripped off,
- rooked,
- screwed,
- shook down,
- shortchanged,
- shorted,
- skinned,
- skunked,
- squeezed,
- stiffed,
- stuck,
- stung,
- suckered,
- swindled,
- thimblerigged,
- victimized
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Phrases Synonymous with conned
- tried to con me into thinking that he had actually won the lottery
Synonyms for conned
- bamboozled,
- beguiled,
- bluffed,
- buffaloed,
- burned
- (or burnt),
- caught,
- cozened,
- deceived,
- deluded,
- duped,
- faked out,
- fooled,
- gaffed,
- gammoned,
- gulled,
- had,
- had on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxed,
- hoodwinked,
- hornswoggled,
- humbugged,
- juggled,
- misguided,
- misinformed,
- misled,
- snookered,
- snowed,
- spoofed,
- strung along,
- sucked in,
- suckered,
- took in,
- tricked
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conned
verb (3)Synonyms of conned (Entry 3 of 3)
- there was white-knuckle tension as the captain conned the gunboat through the mine-infested harbor
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- commandeered,
- hijacked
- (also highjacked)
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“Conned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conned. Accessed 18 Oct. 2021.
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