con game
Example Sentences
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"Stefan Pildes promoted SantaCon as an event grounded in charitable giving, but instead of donating the millions of dollars he raised, he ran his own con game," US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023
These movies ask: To what extent is love a con game?
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2018
In the mid-’90s, Raniere signed a consent order that didn’t admit wrongdoing, but did force him to agree he’d never initiate another con game of that exact variety.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2018
In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
