Usually means: Deceiver exploiting trust for gain.
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  1. confidence man: Merriam-Webster
  2. confidence man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confidence man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confidence man: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. confidence man: Wiktionary
  8. confidence man: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. Confidence Man (Lost), Confidence Man (band), Confidence Man, Confidence man (disambiguation), Confidence man, The Confidence Man (film), The Confidence-Man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. confidence man: Rhymezone
  13. confidence man: FreeDictionary.org
  14. confidence man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. confidence man: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust.

Similar:
con artist, con man, conman, trickster, cover, flashman, shill, guru, slick, clipper, more...

Types:
grifter, con artist, swindler, hustler, flim-flam man, more...

Adjectives:
crook, trick, sham, shuffling, fake, prank, spoof, kayfabe, trumpery, twisting, nimble-fingered

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Similar:
con artist, con man, conman, trickster, cover, flashman, shill, guru, slick, clipper, more...

Types:
grifter, con artist, swindler, hustler, flim-flam man, more...

Adjectives:
crook, trick, sham, shuffling, fake, prank, spoof, kayfabe, trumpery, twisting, nimble-fingered



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