confidence trick

How To Use confidence trick In A Sentence

• There are others who believe they were betrayed by an organization of cheap confidence tricksters and want to tell the world about it.
• This show is the story of his short career in confidence trickery.
• Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster.
• The whole confidence trick was giving the mobile vulgus the illusion that things were getting better, and would continue to do so. The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash
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• Just when it looked like we had rumbled them, they perpetrated on us probably the greatest political confidence trick of the century.
• Is this jaunty young stranger a confidence trickster? Times, Sunday Times
• Detectives fear that she may have disturbed a burglar or confronted a confidence trickster, though they also said it was possible that she knew her attacker. Times, Sunday Times
• So-called en primeur selling is one of the most amazing confidence tricks ever pulled.
• Call it greed, ignorance or gullibility, some people will always be the ‘marks’ - easy prey for the confidence tricksters.