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n. Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust.
Usage examples of "confidence trickster".
It had needed that smile to let me know that the man was a confidence trickster, nothing else.
There was always the remote possibility that he was a glib and creative confidence trickster, and that he had simply invented all these stories about Pearson Turner and the Rev.
She'd been happiest as a confidence trickster, parting rich leeches from their ill-gotten gains and disappearing into the night before they realized how badly they'd been stung.
He may have been a swindler or a confidence trickster or a picker-up of unconsidered trifles or a private inquiry agent.
Hed been a lack-of-confidence trickster, and needed to be noticed.
I became a confidence trickster, and if I swindled someone, they would stop for a week or so.
And they were dressed exquisitely for the occasion, thought the confidence trickster, forcing down a snicker.
But as far as wasting my time on a confidence trickster, a petty horse-trader - no, I am in too much of a hurry.
The John Silver I knew was an ex-pirate and a confidence trickster.
It usually means a confidence trickster, in the world I come from.