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connoun1 a person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentencea program to help ex-cons find employment connoun2an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuethe explanation was so plausible that I never suspected it was all a con to make off with my car bunco(or bunko), fiddle(chiefly British), flimflam, fraud, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swindle cross, fixPonzi scheme, pyramid schemeracket, rip-offthimblerig, three-card montedevice, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wilegouging, overcharging, soakingcounterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony(also phoney), sham converb1to commit to memoryusually candidates con their entire campaign speech, right down to the jokes they supposedly ad-lib learn, memorize, study hark back (to), mind(chiefly dialect), recall, recollect, relive, remember, reminisce (about), retain, think (of)accept, apprehend, comprehend, get, grasp, know, understandabsorb, digest unlearn disremember, forget, misrememberdisregard, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, slur (over) to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)seemed to be conning his face for any sign of uncertainty audit, check (out), examine, inspect, overlook, oversee, review, scan, scrutinize, survey, view notice, observe, watchcomb, peruse, pore (over)analyze, dissect, parsedelve (into), explore, investigate, plumb, probe, research, studycategorize, classifypick overreinspect, rereview, resurvey go over skimglance (at or over)miss converb2to rob by the use of trickery or threatsa fly-by-night operator who had conned hundreds of would-be homeowners out of their hard-earned money beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners to cause to believe what is untruetried to con me into thinking that he had actually won the lottery bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on(chiefly British), hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick kid, put on, teasebleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle do a number on, lead one down the garden path(also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes undeceive debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmaskdisclose, divulge, tell, unveildisabuse, disenchant, disillusion in the 13th century |