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confidence trick en · NOUN
Meanings
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A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).
He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 558:
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Deriveds
conman · conwoman · con