Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A confidence trickster.
Examples
“In the hearing he was described as a "conman", which is also how he had been described by the website, which objected to his conduct in selling land investments.”
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“Surely everyone knows the art of a good magician [conman] is to get the victims [taxpayers] to watch his wand while thy pockets be picked.”
“The identity of the conman is a mystery, but unconfirmed reports suggest that the hoax was the brain-child of 80's pop has-been David Van Day (62), who underwent surgery to resemble the skeletal superstar and announced the 50 date comeback at the O2 Arena last week.”
“I know I have been called a conman,' Mr Monjack told us.”
“Lester Coleman, an ex - operative of DIA, had the ignominy of being called a conman and conspiracy theorist.”
“Bukit Gelugor DAP MP Karpal Singh said what had transpired in the recording was tantamount to sedition as it had brought the country's judiciary into disrepute and Lingam, he suggested, could be charged under the Sedition Act. Even if the 'conman' as implied by Nazri, was just acting, it does bring a wrong impression on the judiciary as whole.”
“Kevin Halligen, 'conman' accused of defrauding McCanns, arrested at hotel in Oxford Virgin Car Insurance”
“After dinner, in the taxi, Anna Liu tells me that before Alessandro, Chiara had hooked-up with a conman who stalked and threatened her, beat her repeatedly and stole her money.”
“Iain Dale likes to repeat and recycle the stories concerning the conman Michael Brown, who made a substantial donation (with the approval of the Electoral Commission), to the lib Dems before the last General Election.”
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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Non-Scrabble words
Common words not in any officially recognised scrabble dictionary, including CSW2012.
No need to add variations (plurals etc.), just the base form will do. No words requiring spaces, punctua...beaner, crema, conman, fakest, fakeness, figgy, kaboom, laggy, nutjob, pide, pissy, roadmap and 14 more...
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Real last names that look like compou...
pennywhistle, drinkwater, goodfellow, applejohn, rainwater, goodfriend, stonecipher, snowball, peacemaker, goodman, brownback, hayslip and 25 more...
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Jamaican patois
"I and I plant the corn..."
i and i, rudeboy, ragamuffin, youth, dem, jamrock, jamden, fat 'matic, likkle, tuff, whe, inna and 132 more...
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sakhalinskii General distrusting Jamaican patois/term for a businessman, or in particular a salesman. Rather literal, considering what salespeoples are required to do to keep their jobs. Or a politician. I got it from "Crazy Baldheads" by Bob Marley and the Wailers:
http://www.lyricsbay.com/crazy_baldheads_lyrics-bob_marley.html Jun 9, 2009