Sentence examples for conned from inspiring English sources

Even when you do pay for an app, there's often no way of knowing whether you've been conned until after you've downloaded and run the thing.

I remember, for example, being encouraged (ie conned) by my grandson into downloading a "free" app featuring a charming kitten, only to discover that if one wanted to clothe this animal in some daft costume or other then one had to shell out a tidy sum for each costume.

With a gaping hole now opening up at the heart of the Northern Ireland peace process, the Irish government angrily demanded to know whether it had been conned over the republican movement's commitment to finding a peaceful settlement.

They think that at the time of monetary union they were conned with the false promise that the euro and the European Central Bank would be worthy of the mighty D-mark and its guardian, the Bundesbank.

If Huawei had persisted, the White House would have had to rule on the deal.Alibaba's chief executive and chief operating officer both resigned after taking responsibility for a scandal at the Chinese e-commerce website, in which some 2,300 online dealers conned their customers.

He even conned the Americans into taking into custody a captured Afghan alleged to be a Taliban loyalist.

In fact, Britain's women are being seduced into the oldest economic experience of all: being conned.

They are starting to suspect that they have been conned.

"We were conned," fumed one.

Unfortunately, the brain isn't conned completely.

Mr Darduna told the BBC he was conned into selling the piece by a local man who pretending to work for Banksy.