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The phrase "confidence man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person who strives to gain people's trust and confidence in order to get money or other benefits from them. For example, "Bob was known around town as a confidence man who was always trying to scam people out of their money."
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confidence man
noun
Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust.
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He's got confidence, man.
But he was no charlatan or confidence man.
"You're perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi.
When he died in 1933, he was Broadway's leading wit, a successful playwright & confidence man.
Mentions some of his works: "Billy Budd", "The Confidence Man", "Pierre".
Poor acoustics marred "Twelve Ophelias," and uncooperative weather rained out several performances of "The Confidence Man".
Dundee, who died Wednesday at 90, was a confidence man, all right.
As a confidence man, the elder Mr. Mezvinsky was the name-dropping type.
Who embodies Melville's "Confidence Man" better than the suave and mysterious pool hustler?
Many Mormon intellectuals seem unconcerned with the question of whether Joseph Smith was a genuine prophet or a confidence man.
("The Confidence Man," his last published novel, several years later, was the graveyard dirt hitting the lid).
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