conmanship en · NOUN
Etymology
From conman + -ship.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The role or status of being a conman.
The increasingly dysfunctional socio-economic conditions exacerbated the increase in extreme healing practices and general religious conmanship.
2020, Mookgo S. Kgatle, Allan H. Anderson, The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism:Human values like love for all living things, compassion, friendship, camaraderie and pity, regard for truth, abhorrence for all forms of conmanship and brain-washing, repugnance of anything that seeks to take advantage of those that are handicapped socially, economically or politically, etc., have taken a terrible beating in recent times from imperialists and neo-colonialists of the West, who have followed, in the main, three strategies to uphold capitalist market values:
2000, Ishwar Modi, Thottamon Kantan Kesavan Narayanan Unnithan, Human Values and Social Change, page 249:Conmanship does not arise from the defector. Even those who are pressurising people in the Opposition to defect are involved in acts of political conmanship.
1994 April 5, Orengo, “Ministerial Statements”, in Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 25: