Sentence examples for confidence trickster from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust.
Play a deadbeat, a fraud, a confidence trickster, be grubby.
Tony Blair is some kind of delusional confidence trickster.
But are we any nearer to really knowing the confused son of a confidence trickster?
His chief occupations were bongo drummer, confidence trickster, brothel-keeper, drug-smuggler and police informer".
Bernie Madoff was (it appears, subject to the finding of the courts) a crook, a fraudster and a confidence trickster.
In turn, they are joined by two Chicago low-lifes, a confidence trickster and a safe-breaker.
They need exposing as morbid confidence tricksters.
In Only When I Larf (1968), Deighton moved from the subject of spies to confidence tricksters.
Those of us who create alternative histories are the most bare-faced confidence tricksters of all.
This made the pair into a partnership of confidence tricksters just right for modern comedy.
Nobody is what they seem in Nikolai Gogol's comedy of card sharps and confidence tricksters.
