Sentence examples for a con game from inspiring English sources

Life is a con game, life is a flop,.

The theater is by its very nature a con game.

As in a con game, the latent dishonesty of the customer is all for the good.

I'm not familiar with being the victim of a con game".

Though the prayer certainly enjoys brand extension, it is a prayer, not a con game or a pyramid scheme.

The boys are trapped, betrayed by the adult world but also by one of their own, caught in the teeth of a con game.

And your con-within-a-con game — the race, as you insist on calling it — has no fizz, no matter how many Champagne corks are popped.

Mr. Schneier said the attacks are more like a traditional con game than a technically sophisticated intrusion.

Here again, the US president will have to show whether he is someone whom other powers have to take seriously, or if he is an easy mark in a geopolitical con game.

Mr. Jay's jacket figured in a discussion of three-card monte, a venerable con game that has disappeared from Times Square, now home instead to sometimes-abusive men in Elmo costumes.

But many art consumers and critics have come to envisage contemporary art as a giant con game The put-on is a fundamentally commercial form, finding its purest expression in television, Hollywood cinema, formula radio, fashion, Top Forty sound, advertising & the most salable of popular art.