con artistin a sentence
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She was swindled by a con artist.
con artist = someone who tricks another for financial gain
- In various court documents, judges described Cofield as a "con artist," "no more than a gadfly and an exploiter of the court system," and "the most litigious inmate in the system."† (source)
- And I thought we were con artists!† (source)
- The men on the Corner were southern working men: plumbers, carpenters, painters, drunks, con artists, retired army lifers from nearby Fort Knox, tobacco workers for Brown and Williamson, and some just plain oT hustlers.† (source)
- What a con artist.† (source)
- We pulled in a white boy from New York, a good con artist, and had him open an office in Tulsa.† (source)
- He walked by the games of chance, run by con artists.† (source)
- Gale does not like hearing about nonbelievers and con artists.† (source)
- They are the ultimate con artists; no matter how much sympathy you feel for them, you have to remind yourself that they will take whatever they can get, because they have nothing.† (source)
- If Salander had come in with her hair smoothed down and wearing a twin-set and pearls and sensible shoes, she would have came across as a con artist trying to sell a story to the court.† (source)
- "—a con artist," Clarise continued, now leaning forward from the sofa to straighten the silk flowers in an arrangement on the coffee table.† (source)
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- He believed the arena of criminal defense was reserved for con artists and grandstanders.† (source)
- At this point the founding figure enters the scene: Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera, perhaps a madman, perhaps an honest rebel, according to some only a con artist.† (source)
- "Then she's a con artist without equal."† (source)
- He told her that Cofield was a con artist, and had her sign a document forbidding Cofield access to her family's records.† (source)
- I couldn't have imagined it then, but that phone call would mark the beginning of a decade long adventure through scientific laboratories, hospitals, and mental institutions, with a cast of characters that would include Nobel laureates, grocery store clerks, convicted felons, and a professional con artist.† (source)
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