Sentence examples for conning us from inspiring English sources

As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.

The prime minister is conning us all.

But all that is undermined by the fact that he was conning us.

Here, in I Must First Apologise…, they turn their penetrative attention to online spam and scamming, revealing the genealogy of devious ways of conning us out of our money through the exploitation of emotional vulnerabilities and financial fallibilities.

Not only are the various spies and their masters conning one another; Gilroy is conning us, too, with a series of flashbacks to different places (including a beautiful stretch of Rome's old center), where Ray and Claire meet and deliver variations on the same conversation again and again.

And in the process, they're conning us, too".

Of course I watched Derren Brown's Event, "predicting" the lottery numbers, but I'm writing this without having seen Friday night's big reveal, in which Derren revealed how he conned us so brilliantly using a secret network of invisible stealth-cats in bunny hats.

Don't con us that it's in the borough's interest.

Wilfred Owen and Blackadder have apparently conned us into thinking the great war was futile, when in reality it was a "just" war provoked by German aggression.

They've launched a massive, well-financed disinformation campaign to con us into believing that their economic interests are the same as ours.

"I had a long conversation with one of the governor's minions and I told him, 'Don't try to con us that the governor is actively engaged,' " he said.