Sentence examples for con men's from inspiring English sources

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.

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?

"The standard con man's line is you can only con someone with larceny in their heart," Mr. Jay replied.

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.

The con man's game is a performance of invulnerability, and Caulfield, with his strutting bravado, gets it just right.

And with that Cash gives a con man's grin and gets ready to put Frank through his transformation paces.

Multilingual and gregarious, he has shown a con man's gift for winning over accomplices, investigators and romantic conquests.

But Wayne cements the deal with a con man's bluff, taming the bullying Hugh with a game of Russian roulette.