Con Artist

  

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Con Artist

Definition: Con Artist

Con Artist

Noun

1. A swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Con Artist

DomainDefinition

Law

See FR. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Con Artist

Synonyms: con man (n), confidence man (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Con Artist

English words defined with "con artist": replacesubstitute. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Con Artist

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to be a con artist : youth conference planning handbook for Unitarian Universalists (reference)

  • How to Become a Professional Con Artist (reference)

  • Schemes & Scams: A Practical Guide for Outwitting Today's Con Artist (reference)

  • The Con Game and 'Yellow Kid' Weil: The Autobiography of the Famous Con Artist As Told to W. T. Brannon. (reference)

  • The Master Shyster: Con Artist (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Con Artist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

con artist

126

con artist scams

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Con Artist

Language Translations for "con artist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

spécialiste de l'escroquerie, escroc (con). (various references)

   

German

  

trickbetrüger (con man, confidence trickster). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oncay artistay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

folirant (phony). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Con Artist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tractions.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: carotins, citators, contrast, oscitant, ricottas, strontia, strontic, tactions, traction.

-2 letters: actions, aroints, astrict, atonics, attorns, cantors, carotin, cartons, cations, cistron, citator, citrons, contras, cortins, cottars, cratons, intorts, narcist, octants, rations, rattons, ricotta, station, taction, tantric, transit, tricots, tritons.

-3 letters: acorns, actins, action, actors, antics, aorist, aortic, aristo, aroint, arsino, artist, atonic, attics, attorn.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: carnotites, cartoonist, castration, constraint.

 

+2 letters: abstraction, astronautic, attractions, cartoonists, castrations, constraints, contradicts, contrasting, contrastive, corotations, creationist, detractions, distraction, eructations, extractions, intercostal, nonartistic, recitations, retractions, romanticist, rustication, subtraction, trajections, transaction, transection, truncations, urtications.

 

+3 letters: abstractions, actinometers, altercations, anorthositic, anticipators, antistrophic, astronautics, coarctations, continuators, contractions, contraptions, counterstain, creationists, crepitations, distractions, encrustation, extrications, fractionates, incrustation, inspectorate, interactions, intercoastal, intercostals, metrications, nonstrategic, obscurantist, obstetrician, postromantic, protractions, ratiocinates, recantations, reluctations, retroactions, romanticists, rustications, scatteration, scintillator, subtractions, transactions, transduction, transections, transfection, unconstraint, vaticinators.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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