con artist

noun Informal.
1.
a person adept at lying, cajolery, or glib self-serving talk.
2.
a person adept at swindling by means of confidence games; swindler.
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con man definition


and con artist
  1. n.
    someone who makes a living by swindling people. : Gary is a con artist, but at least he's not on the dole. , I was taken by a real con man!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Con artist is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
The con artist has collected the money and disappeared.
Affinity fraud occurs when a con artist preys on a group of people who share a
  common bond.
His opinion is no more valid than that of a con artist selling time shares.
Fortunately, the online payment service the con artist used to collect
  donations began to question the web site's legitimacy.
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