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Noun [English]

Forms: con artists [plural]
Etymology: Clipping of confidence artist. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|confidence artist}} Clipping of confidence artist Head templates: {{en-noun}} con artist (plural con artists)
  1. A person who defrauds or swindles others after first gaining their trust; a scam operator. Categories (topical): Crime, People, Stock characters Hypernyms: deceiver Derived forms: con artistry Related terms: pickpocket, thief Translations (scam operator, conman): φέναξ (phénax) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), estafador [masculine] (Catalan), estafa [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 騙子 (Chinese Mandarin), 骗子 (piànzi) (Chinese Mandarin), podvodník [masculine] (Czech), svindler [common-gender] (Danish), oplichter [masculine] (Dutch), oplichtster [feminine] (Dutch), fripono (Esperanto), trompisto (Esperanto), huijari (Finnish), petkuttaja (Finnish), escroc [feminine, masculine] (French), arnaqueur [masculine] (French), arnaqueuse [feminine] (French), estafador [masculine] (Galician), argalleiro (Galician), Abzocker [masculine] (German), Scharlatan [masculine] (German), Hochstapler [masculine] (German), Trickbetrüger [masculine] (German), Trickbetrügerin [feminine] (German), Hochstaplerin [feminine] (German), Schwindler [masculine] (German), Schwindlerin [feminine] (German), απατεώνας (apateónas) [masculine] (Greek), szélhámos (Hungarian), csaló (Hungarian), penipu (Indonesian), defraudatore [masculine] (Italian), ingannatore [masculine] (Italian), millantatore [masculine] (Italian), abbindolatore [masculine] (Italian), mistificatore [masculine] (Italian), imbonitore [masculine] (Italian), 詐欺師 (sagishi) (alt: さぎし) (Japanese), fraudātor [masculine] (Latin), bacheque (Lingala), хохштаплер (hohštapler) [masculine] (Macedonian), hochsztapler [masculine] (Polish), hochsztaplerka [feminine] (Polish), naciągacz [masculine] (Polish), naciągaczka [feminine] (Polish), trapaceiro (Portuguese), vigarista (Portuguese), моше́нник (mošénnik) [masculine] (Russian), моше́нница (mošénnica) [feminine] (Russian), жу́лик (žúlik) [masculine] (Russian), афери́ст (aferíst) [masculine] (Russian), афери́стка (aferístka) [feminine] (Russian), ciraulu [masculine] (Sicilian), mprugghiuni [masculine] (Sicilian), mprusaturi [masculine] (Sicilian), estafador [masculine] (Spanish), engañabobos (Spanish), trilero [masculine] (Spanish), embaucador [masculine] (Spanish), svindlare [common-gender] (Swedish), dolandırıcı (Turkish)

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          "word": "engañabobos"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "scam operator, conman",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "trilero"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "scam operator, conman",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "embaucador"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "scam operator, conman",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "svindlare"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "scam operator, conman",
          "word": "dolandırıcı"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "con artist"
}
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    {
      "word": "con artistry"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "confidence artist"
      },
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      "name": "clipping"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of confidence artist.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "deceiver"
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "pickpocket"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
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    }
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        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
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        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Lingala translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Sicilian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "en:Crime",
        "en:People",
        "en:Stock characters"
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        {
          "ref": "2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:",
          "text": "He's the FBI agent antagonist in Catch Me If You Can (2002) opposite a buoyantly charming young Leonardo DiCaprio as con artist Frank Abagnale, but his character is more of a determined cat to Leo's mouse than a real foil; he's simply a prim Eisenhower-era man with a job to do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Leavers will be attracted to that story because it spares them the discomfort of admitting that they voted for a con, and then made a prime minister of the con artist.",
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        }
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          "defraud"
        ],
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        ],
        [
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          "trust"
        ],
        [
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          "scam"
        ],
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          "operator",
          "operator"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "conman"
        },
        {
          "word": "con"
        },
        {
          "word": "confidence trickster"
        },
        {
          "word": "deceiver"
        }
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    {
      "word": "con-artist"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "charlatan"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "con artist"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "conman"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "duper"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "fraud"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "fraudster"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "grifter"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "hustler"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "scammer"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "shyster"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "snake oil salesman"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "word": "snake"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "swindler"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:con artist",
      "word": "trickster"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estafador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estafa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "騙子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "piànzi",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "骗子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podvodník"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "svindler"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oplichter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oplichtster"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "fripono"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "trompisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "huijari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "petkuttaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "escroc"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arnaqueur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arnaqueuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estafador"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "argalleiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Abzocker"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Scharlatan"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hochstapler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Trickbetrüger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Trickbetrügerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hochstapler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hochstaplerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schwindler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schwindlerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apateónas",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "απατεώνας"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "phénax",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "φέναξ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "szélhámos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "csaló"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "penipu"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "defraudatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingannatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "millantatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abbindolatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mistificatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "imbonitore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "さぎし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sagishi",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "詐欺師"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fraudātor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ln",
      "lang": "Lingala",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "bacheque"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "hohštapler",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хохштаплер"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hochsztapler"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hochsztaplerka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "naciągacz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naciągaczka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "trapaceiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "vigarista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mošénnik",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "моше́нник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mošénnica",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "моше́нница"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žúlik",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "жу́лик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "aferíst",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "афери́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "aferístka",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "афери́стка"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ciraulu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mprugghiuni"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mprusaturi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estafador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "engañabobos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trilero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "embaucador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "svindlare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "scam operator, conman",
      "word": "dolandırıcı"
    }
  ],
  "word": "con artist"
}

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