conning

Example Sentences

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“She was a con artist. She was conning the government, and men,” Perry says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

Yet it was this exact determination—to build power in an inherently flawed system—that turned him into the conning strategist he became.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2024

Essentially, Watson was accused of conning his “friends” out of tens of millions of dollars by lying, exaggerating and omitting the truth about Ozy’s unimpressive finances and performance.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024

It also had two watertight hatches for entering and leaving the vessel, one at the front and another at the rear, and two short conning towers equipped with small portholes.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler