Sentence examples for a con one from inspiring English sources

"After the blowoff has occurred," Goffman explained, about the operation of a con, "one of the operators stays with the mark and makes an effort to keep the anger of the mark within manageable and sensible proportions.

The story had a creepy end where he came to a con one time where they had a kids day care for the day area and he would stand there staring at the kids.

It might seem like a shabby con, one that steals from the savers and the elderly and gives to the borrowers and the feckless young, but when a country has spent itself into the ground, the only alternative--sudden default and collapse--is worse.

He was at the heart of a con based on "one great big lie", convincing potential buyer Terence Collins that he was a "close friend and associate" of the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers, owners of the hotel in Piccadilly.

58 min: Def Con One in a Manchester office.

Saigon calling for action against the Cambodian Government, with some extremist students demanding that the South Viet namese President, Nguyen Van Thieu, declare war on Cam bodia, make the use of South Vietnamese troops here a con troversial one.

DEF CON, one of the best-known hacker cons on the planet, has perhaps been the most beleaguered of events when it comes to complaints of harassment.

To figure out if someone is a con artist, one needs to ask two questions.

Miliband says he knows what's a con: saying one thing before the election, and another after.

Everything in the movie is a con and one could say that American history whether it's the Louisiana Purchase or the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians by Peter Minuit for the equivalent of $24 is about getting over on someone.

Let's briefly review everybody's input pro & con one last time and decide go or no-go, pronto.