Sentence examples for con man's from inspiring English sources

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But as my wise old mentor, the Barron's editor and columnist Alan Abelson, used to remind me, the con man's favorite pitch line is: "This time it's different".

Is it about a con man's criminal career?

All it has going for it is the con man's relentless playing of the fear card.

He uses this skill to make a con man's living as a "psychic investigator".

Few statements could do more to gladden a con man's heart.

He falters and flounders, a victim of his own con man's boosterism.

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Some of the techniques presage the methods laid out by David W. Maurer in "The Big Con," the 1940 study of con men's slang and practices on which "The Sting" was based.

It's dumb to elect a con man who's gone bankrupt many times.

We won't say you're a "con man", but let's face it, working out a trade requires one to be a savvy salesman.

Bringing a magnetic innocence to his role as a second-generation con man who's juggling two wives (and lives), Mr. Wolk triumphs, conveying the guilt and fatigue of moral compromise.

Kreuger replies curtly that he is "greatly disappointed" by the attitude of the banks.Kreuger's luck was running out, and his unswerving confidence was beginning to look like a con-man's desperate manoeuvring.

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