Usually means: Deception to gain financial advantage.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. confidence game: Merriam-Webster
  2. confidence game: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confidence game: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confidence game: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confidence game: Vocabulary.com
  6. confidence game: Wordnik
  7. confidence game: Wiktionary
  8. confidence game: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. confidence game: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Confidence game, confidence game: Dictionary.com
  11. Confidence Game, Confidence game, The Confidence Game: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. confidence game: Rhymezone
  13. confidence game: FreeDictionary.org
  14. confidence game: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. confidence game: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. confidence game: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. confidence game: Legal dictionary

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  1. confidence game: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confidence game)

▸ noun:  A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after their trust has been won.

Similar:
con game, flimflam, gyp, bunco, hustle, con, bunko, sting, bunco game, bunko game, more...

Opposite:
honesty, sincerity, truthfulness

Types:
three-card monte, shell game, Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, more...

Adjectives:
sham, trick, fake, crook, kayfabe, shuffling, spoof, twisting, fob, cheaty, prank

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Similar:
con game, flimflam, gyp, bunco, hustle, con, bunko, sting, bunco game, bunko game, more...

Opposite:
honesty, sincerity, truthfulness

Types:
three-card monte, shell game, Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, more...

Adjectives:
sham, trick, fake, crook, kayfabe, shuffling, spoof, twisting, fob, cheaty, prank



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