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Clipping of confidence artist.
con artist (plural con artists)
- A person who defrauds or swindles others after first gaining their trust; a scam operator.
- Synonyms: conman, con; see also Thesaurus:confidence trickster, Thesaurus:deceiver
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC[1]: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.
2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, in The Guardian[2]: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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scam operator, conman
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: estafador m, estafa (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 騙子/骗子 (zh) (piànzi)
- Czech: podvodník (cs) m
- Danish: svindler (da) c
- Esperanto: fripono (eo), trompisto
- Finnish: huijari (fi), petkuttaja (fi)
- French: escroc (fr) m or f, arnaqueur (fr) m, arnaqueuse (fr) f
- Galician: estafador m, argalleiro (gl)
- German: Trickbetrüger m, Trickbetrügerin f, Hochstapler (de) m, Hochstaplerin (de) f, Schwindler (de) m, Schwindlerin (de) f
- Greek: απατεώνας (el) m (apateónas)
- Ancient: φέναξ m (phénax)
- Hungarian: szélhámos (hu), csaló (hu)
- Indonesian: penipu (id)
- Italian: defraudatore m, ingannatore (it) m, millantatore (it) m, abbindolatore (it) m, mistificatore (it) m, imbonitore (it) m
- Japanese: 詐欺師 (ja) (さぎし, sagishi)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: fraudātor m
- Lingala: bacheque
- Macedonian: хохштаплер m (hohštapler)
- Portuguese: trapaceiro (pt), vigarista (pt)
- Russian: моше́нник (ru) m (mošénnik), моше́нница (ru) f (mošénnica), жу́лик (ru) m (žúlik), афери́ст (ru) m (aferíst), афери́стка (ru) f (aferístka)
- Sicilian: ciraulu (scn) m, mprugghiuni m, mprusaturi m
- Spanish: estafador (es) m, engañabobos (es), trilero m
- Swedish: svindlare (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: dolandırıcı (tr)
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