CON GAME Synonyms

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• a rapid active commotion

• cause to move furtively and hurriedly

• move or cause to move energetically or busily

• sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

• get by trying hard

• pressure or urge someone into an action

• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

• a mental pain or distress

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

• deliver a sting to

• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

• cause a stinging pain

• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a deception for profit to yourself

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a loud and disturbing noise

• an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit

• the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

• a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games

• celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

• make loud and annoying noises

• hit (a ball) with a racket

• a fraudulent business scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• A confidence game or swindle.

• To obtain illegally, as by con game.

• To obtain money illegally.

• To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• deprive of by deceit

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• an argument opposed to a proposal

• a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.

• deprive of by deceit

• commit to memory; learn by heart

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property