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Con artist
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fraudster
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a person who practices fraud; a swindler
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who practices fraud," 1975, from fraud + -ster . Earlier words were fraud (1850); fraudsman (1610s); frauditor (1550s).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ First, her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars. ▪ The success of the fraudster often hinges on the ability to tell a convincing story. ▪ Yesterday the school defended its decision to allow a convicted ...
Usage examples of fraudster.
Of course, I accept as natural born criminal, habitual liar, fraudster and totally untrustworthy perverted genius.
It's a sex thing this, got to be, so the fraudsters and con merchants have gone to the back of the queue.
And when he'd found out that he had been a bigamist and a fraudster he had liked him even less.
Problem was, he needed what the fraudster had called "the startup," meaning some cash.
Wood, a former guerilla in the Mexican War who'd won a reputation busting contractor fraudsters for the War Department during the Civil War.
The same professional fraudsters do it over and over, Thackeray tells me, they hide behind dense onion-shells of fake companies.
They were a new class of human being, something past charlatan, something past fraudster or hustler, something without real precedent, something past history, something past identity.
As a class, however, they are all sorely harassed by fraudsters, phone phreaks, and computer hackers, and they all maintain computer-security experts.