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con-artist

con-artist is the alternative form of con artist.

Meaning of con artist

Noun

con artist (plural con artists)

  1. A person who uses confidence tricks to defraud or swindle people after first gaining their trust with a series of confidence games; a scam operator, confidence trickster.
    • That greedy con artist would swindle you at any cost.

Forms of con-artist

pluralcon-artists

Questions about con-artist

What is con-artist the alternative form of?
Con-artist is the alternative form of con artist.

Words near con-artist in the dictionary

  1. con trick
  2. con tricks
  3. con woman
  4. con women
  5. con-
  6. con-artist
  7. con-artists
  8. Con-Ass
  9. Con-Con
  10. Con-Dem
  11. con-man

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