con man

noun

: a person who tricks other people in order to get their money : con artist

Examples of con man in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Now this con man is worshipped like a demigod — selling Bibles alongside sneakers. —

Lz Granderson, The Denver Post, 23 July 2024 When confronted about Kabul Bank’s malfeasance by the governor of Afghanistan’s Central Bank in 2010, Karzai asked whether President Barack Obama had gotten personally involved in the prosecution of Wall Street con man Bernie Madoff. —

Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2016 But there were still no bodies and the con man was admitting to nothing. —

Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024 From its opening scenes establishing Tom as a low-level New York City con man running a fake collections agency, Ripley has an omnipresent, almost oppressive air of paranoia that feeds this framing. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for con man

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'con man.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.