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confidence trick

confidence trick noun: a method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).

Noun

confidence trick (plural confidence tricks)

  1. A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).
    • He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 558

confidence trick meaning in Tamil

confidence trick in Tamil

மோசடி

Forms of confidence trick

pluralconfidence tricks

Words formed from confidence trick

Questions about confidence trick

What does confidence trick mean?
Confidence trick means a method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).
What is confidence trick in Tamil?
Confidence trick in Tamil is மோசடி. See Confidence trick meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is confidence trick?
Confidence trick is a noun.
What is the plural of confidence trick?
The plural of confidence trick is confidence tricks.

Words near confidence trick in the dictionary

  1. confidence limits
  2. confidence man
  3. confidence men
  4. confidence motion
  5. confidence motions
  6. confidence trick
  7. confidence tricks
  8. confidence trickster
  9. confidence tricksters
  10. confidence vote
  11. confidence votes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: confidence trick (page history and authors); confidence trick (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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