confidence man trickster
1confidence man — noun Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust. Syn: confidence trickster, con man …
2confidence man — noun dated a confidence trickster …
3confidence man — A swindler; a trickster. See confidence game …
4confidence man — Synonyms and related words: bunco artist, bunco steerer, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, con artist, con man, crimp, defrauder, diddler, gyp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land grabber, mortgage shark,… …
5trickster — n 1. deceiver, deluder, hoodwinker, beguiler, inveigler, bamboozler, dissembler, bluff, pettifogger; fake, faker, phony, humbug; imposter, mas querader, pretender, mountebank, hypocrite, charlatan, Inf. quack; adventurer, rogue, picaroon, rascal …
6trickster — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. fraud, confidence man, impostor; see cheat 1 , swindler . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A person who cheats: bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, victim izer. Informal: chiseler, crook,… …
7confidence — noun 1 belief in others ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, full, total ▪ The company needs the full confidence of its investors. ▪ great, high …
8List of confidence tricks — This list of confidence tricks and scams should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples. Confidence tricks and scams are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type.… …
9con man — noun a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim • Syn: ↑confidence man, ↑con artist • Hypernyms: ↑swindler, ↑defrauder, ↑chiseller, ↑chiseler, ↑gouger, ↑ …
10illywhacker — /ˈɪliwækə / (say ileewakuh) noun a confidence man; trickster. Also, illywacker. {obsolete British thieves slang whack the illy to perform a confidence trick; ? from eelie, from eelerspee, back slang from spieler} …
