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
The only ones to suffer here might be the institutions of higher learning themselves, many of which are running a con game for their own financial benefit.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
These two people are recklessly messing with the world as if it's just another con game, in which they'll take their profits before moving on to the next chapter of their spoiled, mindless lives.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2019
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
