Sample sentences for CON ARTIST

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someone who tricks another for financial gain

He was swindled by a con artist.

He walked by the games of chance, run by con artists.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
We pulled in a white boy from New York, a good con artist, and had him open an office in Tulsa.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
He believed the arena of criminal defense was reserved for con artists and grandstanders.
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
"—a con artist," Clarise continued, now leaning forward from the sofa to straighten the silk flowers in an arrangement on the coffee table.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Gale does not like hearing about nonbelievers and con artists.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
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.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
What a con artist.
Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now
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."
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
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.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
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.
James McBride -- The Color of Water
He told her that Cofield was a con artist, and had her sign a document forbidding Cofield access to her family's records.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
"Then she's a con artist without equal."
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
And I thought we were con artists!
Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 2) and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
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.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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