confidence game

Noun

Meaning

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

con game con sting hustle bunco bunko flimflam confidence trick grift bunco game bunko game fib bluff swindle chicane

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Antonyms

oath honor integrity innocence honesty fairness

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Hypernyms

swindle rig cheat

Hyponyms

sting operation

Examples

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose. Robertson Davies

Close letter words and terms

confidence artist confidence band confidence bounds confidence in confidence in oneself confidence interval