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How to use con in a sentence

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The middle-aged con artist partners up with young two-bit purse snatcher Fiona, played by Liane Balaban.
There's no doubt about it, computer technology makes life easier for con artists and identity thieves.
The ex-husband, on the other hand, is one of those cardboard cutout con artist crooks whose rather simple death is more decent than he deserves.
Cuckoos con other birds into rearing their chicks because it's so much easier than doing it themselves.
Mankind being what it is, murderers, robbers, thieves, thugs, and con artists will always exist.
All too regularly we carry stories detailing how con artists and thieves swindled and stole from householders.
Parking at the convention stinks but there's an excellent shuttle bus system which is explained on this page of the con website.
I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
Some of history's greatest scams have been perpetrated by con artists masquerading as philanthropists.
In the United States, thousands of people are ripped off by con artists selling bogus investments.
Or maybe I like hearing about a good con that separates the rubes from their money.
A con man simply inspires confidence in himself and his promised abilities and then uses that to exploit his audience.
His con involved promising customers that timeshares already owned would be sold to defray some of the cost of buying into one of his resorts.
It's certainly totally immoral to con people that they have a psychic connection when there is none.
They con the girls into believing they are about to make it onto the front page of every magazine.
Telephone fraudsters are being foiled in their attempts to con people out of hundreds of pounds.
His exceptional skills at grifting combined with his good looks have allowed him to believe that he can con anybody.
Brass's assigned to pose as a con so he can get the goods on what's happening inside the prison.
It does not lend any credibility to the possibility of Jimmy as a con artist.
Dean's behaviour is just the latest example of the big con many major party politicians engage in.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thaa's welly done for me a'ready, but I con live naa thaa's come back, if thaa'll nobbud live an' o', and live wi' me.
If it had been on the rotation of my crops, I would have answered myself, lengthily perhaps, but certainly con gusto.
Afterwards they ate bowls of chili con carne and drank coffee and condensed milk, then drove out of town to make camp.
Vi a doa Perfecta hablando con el Penitenciario, y a Rosarito sola, con los ojos fijos en la puerta.
I guess I can tell a gentleman from a con man or a flimflammer when I meet him.
They may work a con game on some of the agents and dispatchers, but they get over the road with the local.
If you suspect he is trying to con you because you represent an easy mark, give him nothing.
You will never be happy if the pro and the con distress you alike.
She sat and cried con amore as her uncle intended, but it was con amore fraternal and no other.
A CLAMPDOWN on online hoaxers who con people out of money via faked copycat Government websites has led to five arrests.
And another heaping knifeful of the chile con carne went into his mouth.
But while the rest of us can only wish to own one, a con artist has run away with five of them from leading showrooms in South Delhi.
Indeed, it is not easy to throw the religious con into a convict.
A DISABLED widower was conned out of PS55,000 after ending up on a suckers list of soft targets sold to ruthless con artists.
An' Enoch welly blew his lips off wi' playin', I con tell thi.
You've been took in, you've bit on a con game like a hungry pike.
You fetch that cat here or I'll have con take him away from you.
The mood changes from con spirito to andante con expresione, to recitativo, to largo ed amoroso.
His pal Lou frittered his life savings away on a pretty con artist, while his boss was forced to place his dementia-afflicted wife in a nursing home.
And I almost shrank from undertaking them shorthanded and without local knowledge of the river bed, which is so necessary for the con fident handling of the ship.
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