Synonyms for confidence trick
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for confidence trick Other synonyms for the word confidence trick
Définition of confidence trick
- As in con game : noun confidence game
- As in confidence game : noun con job
- Any number of sharpers who tried the confidence trick, but tried it in vain.
- Extract from : « A Gamble with Life » by Silas K. Hocking
- I been up to the confidence trick for years—ever since I was your age.
- Extract from : « The Enchanted Castle » by E. Nesbit
- But the confidence trick has been too often played upon us to deceive us again.
- Extract from : « The Evolution of Sinn Fein » by Robert Mitchell Henry
- Business now-a-days is run on the lines of the confidence trick.
- Extract from : « Three Plays by Granville-Barker » by Harley Granville-Barker
- We would make it the emblem of artistic deception, and the confidence trick expert should wear it as his crest.
- Extract from : « Certain Personal Matters » by H. G. Wells
- One more instance—but one coming within the class of the "confidence trick."
- Extract from : « The Royal Mail » by James Wilson Hyde
- He was the first, so far as I recollect, to play the favourite Turkish confidence trick upon us.
- Extract from : « A Prisoner in Turkey » by John Still
- E wos jest the sort o' chap that's took in with the confidence trick, and you read of 'em pritty orfen in the papers.
- Extract from : « The Betrayal of John Fordham » by B.L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
- For instance, there is the confidence trick, in which the rustic is beguiled by the honest stranger into trusting him.
- Extract from : « The History of London » by Walter Besant
- This is just a typical Home Rule argument, the confidence trick all over.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
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