Meaning of conman in English
(Definition of conman from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of conman
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There should be no place in the market for cowboys and conmen.
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Indeed, he mentioned that tonight's new regulations might control such conmen; he hoped so anyway.
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Added to this is the realisation that many champions of the new economy are turning out to be manipulative conmen.
They have unleashed on our economy every species of spiv and conman known to civilisation, and created an ideology not of the wealth producer but of the looter.
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He went by many aliases, fictionalized his identity and background on multiple occasions, and operated as a conman.
Mammootty explain her why he became a conman and his past struggling life.
The film is about a conman whose task is to plunder the treasure from a royal household.
He was bullied at school but ran away and became a travelling conman.
He was a glib and charming conman, fluent in multiple languages.
In reality, he is nothing more than a conman.
This done, the conman proceeds to wash the banknote in the chemical, performing a sleight of hand, substituting a real note which is washed.
Duggan then escorted the conman out of town.
She comes to stay with her children after she was fleeced out of her divorce settlement by a conman.
He is a charming conman who got away with a lot of crimes.
Little is known about her family, except that her father is a conman who was arrested during her teens.
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