Usually means: Deception to gain personal advantage.
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  1. confidence trick: Merriam-Webster
  2. confidence trick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confidence trick: Collins English Dictionary
  4. confidence trick: Vocabulary.com
  5. confidence trick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confidence trick: Wiktionary
  7. confidence trick: Dictionary.com
  8. Confidence trick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. confidence trick: Rhymezone
  10. confidence trick: FreeDictionary.org
  11. confidence trick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. confidence trick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. confidence trick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. confidence trick: Legal dictionary
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  1. confidence trick: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confidence trick)

▸ noun:  A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).

Similar:
con trick, trick, fraud, tale, deceit, fakeout, romance scam, gaff, cheap trick, Murphy game, more...

Opposite:
honesty, sincerity, straightforwardness

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Similar:
con trick, trick, fraud, tale, deceit, fakeout, romance scam, gaff, cheap trick, Murphy game, more...

Opposite:
honesty, sincerity, straightforwardness



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