Sentence examples for kind of con from inspiring English sources

And, of course, making theatre is a kind of con as well.

You have this desire to be some kind of con artist.

Is there no mercy in the world?" But Miss A's cry against injustice is also a kind of con.

I can't forget an afternoon wandering in the hustlers' village outside a Pentecostal revival at Earls Court, where every kind of con imaginable was perpetrated against the crowd.

Volpone, whom Ben Jonson claimed to have invented in five weeks in 1606, is the kind of con man who would steal your stove, then come back for the smoke.

The "normcore personality" I had adopted was probably too drab and indifferent; I wondered if people thought me some kind of con artist or international assassin, looking as indistinguishable as possible in order to commit some awful atrocity.

The teacher was cross that writers were pulling off some kind of con-trick, and yearned for a book that showed school as it really was.

There were all kinds of cons among the extras, including, I was told one day, a number of child molesters.

"The President of this school is some kind of a con man.

The three-day convention – a kind of Comic Con for thespians – will include panels about sound and costume design, a seminar on producing and masterclasses led by veterans.

The boy wanted the ball for motives that had nothing to do with its resale value (unless this kid is some kind of sublime con artist who exclusively operates out of Major League ballparks).