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unconned

unconned adjective: not conned; not studied or learned.

Adjective (1)

unconned (not comparable)

  1. Not conned; not studied or learned.
    • I have known school-boys, who were so deeply impressed with the horrors of Monday morning, and the dread of what was to ensue from unconned lessons, and questions which they could neither answer nor understand[…]1832, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 1, page 624

Adjective (2)

unconned (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Not defrauded or tricked.
    • […] circumstances arrayed against him and the citizenry he does his best to keep unconned, are awesomely beyond control. Fraud is as old as the world — and to beleaguered Los Angeles it only seems as if the crime is a local monopoly.1966, Walter Wagner, The Golden Fleecers, page 6
    • For many people of low status, to be "smart" means to outsmart, outfox, outwit, dupe, "put on" or "con" others — and to remain "unconned" oneself!1970, Helen MacGill Hughes, Delinquents and Criminals: Their Social World, page 65

Origin of unconned

From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to study, learn”).

From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to deceive”).

Questions about unconned

What does unconned mean?
Unconned means not conned; not studied or learned.
What part of speech is unconned?
Unconned is an adjective.

Words near unconned in the dictionary

  1. unconnectedness
  2. unconnectible
  3. unconnecting
  4. unconnection
  5. unconnects
  6. unconned
  7. unconnived at
  8. unconniving
  9. unconnoted
  10. unconnubial
  11. unconquerability

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