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con artist

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noun Informal.

a person adept at lying, cajolery, or glib self-serving talk.
a person adept at swindling by means of confidence games; swindler.

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crook, swindler, hustler, deceiver, fraud, mountebank, cheater, bunco, flimflammer, hoser, scammer, shark, sharpie, smoothie

Nearby words

comus, comédie française, con, con amore, con anima, con artist, con brio, con dolore, con espressione, con fuoco, con game
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