What is "confidence games"

Usage examples of "confidence games".

He scented confidence games, hoaxes, faddish self-deception, and especially (for it was his province) advertising copy exaggerations behind every faintly unusual event and every intimation of the unknown.

She made him yearn for more than confidence games and sleight of hand.

Now, I'm not sure what the penalty for fraud, confidence games, and counterfeiting stocks is in the United Kingdom, but they can be pretty rough on pros where I come from.

You'll never find a more cunning master of the confidence games than a man from Ankhapur.

In gambling and confidence games, some people develop a nervous habit which gives away the fact that they're bluffing.

I can give you religious spools, police records, confidence games, records of expeditions to various parts of the world.