"conmanship" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From conman + -ship. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|conman|ship}} conman + -ship Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} conmanship (uncountable)
  1. The role or status of being a conman. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-conmanship-en-noun-jBK-qouA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ship, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1994 April 5, Orengo, “Ministerial Statements”, in Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 25",
          "text": "Conmanship does not arise from the defector. Even those who are pressurising people in the Opposition to defect are involved in acts of political conmanship.",
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          "ref": "2000, Ishwar Modi, Thottamon Kantan Kesavan Narayanan Unnithan, Human Values and Social Change, page 249",
          "text": "Human values like love for all living things, compassion, friendship, camaraderie and pity, regard for truth, abhorrence for all forms of conmanship and brain-washing, repugnance of anything that seeks to take advantage of those that are handicapped socially, economically or politically, etc., have taken a terrible beating in recent times from imperialists and neo-colonialists of the West, who have followed, in the main, three strategies to uphold capitalist market values:",
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