Sentence examples for confidence game from inspiring English sources
noun
A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.
Which is why I'm not the least bit confident that Christine Richard's Confidence Game (Wiley, 2008) will change things very much, notwithstanding its compelling narrative, meticulous reporting and unassailable documentation.
But re-establishing consistently positive inflation is a confidence game.
His Civil War was another elaborate confidence game.
"Horse riding is a confidence game, like everything," he says.
It all left an implicit message while hinting at The Missile's confidence game.
"I was playing a confidence game," said Whitney, now sixty-seven.
Wall Street is a confidence game, in the strictest sense of that phrase.
As with advertising, Mr. Deutsch said, television is a confidence game that requires the occasional bluff.
Both scenes recall the reason certain kinds of deception are called confidence games.
It has to be one of the most successful confidence games in history.
Reality, after all, teems with confidence games and dubious vendibles, from dot-com stocks to black-market caviar.
