confidence trick

British  

noun

1. Informal shortened forms: con trick, con game. a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler

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confidence trick

He was jailed for 10 years for perpetrating a "callous confidence trick", the judge said.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2018

This is more like a horror, a deep horror: to see how this confidence trick is being played out in front of everybody.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013

“This report is a sham, this report is a whitewash, this report is a confidence trick dressed up as independent scrutiny and given invisible clothes of reliability,” she said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2012

Arthur Ford-Batey, Alan Hunt and Ian Yorkshire were sentenced earlier at Norwich Crown Court Three men involved in an elaborate confidence trick in which a Christian philanthropist from Norfolk lost £12m have been jailed.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2012

Public speaking, like writing, is in many ways a confidence trick.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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