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confidence tricks

confidence tricks is the plural of confidence trick.

Meaning of confidence trick

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

Questions about confidence tricks

What is confidence tricks the plural of?
Confidence tricks is the plural of confidence trick.

Words near confidence tricks in the dictionary

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

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