Crossword clues for conned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Con \Con\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conned; p. pr. & vb. n. Conning.] [AS. cunnan to know, be able, and (derived from this) cunnian to try, test. See Can, v. t. & i.]
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To know; to understand; to acknowledge. [Obs.]
Of muses, Hobbinol, I con no skill.
--Spenser.They say they con to heaven the highway.
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To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book.
--Wordsworth.I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson.
--Burke.To con answer, to be able to answer. [Obs.]
To con thanks, to thank; to acknowledge obligation. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (en-pastcon) 2 (en-past of: conn)
WordNet
See con
n. an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro]
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, inmate, jailbird, gaolbird]
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
adv. on the negative side; "much was written pro and con" [syn: in opposition] [ant: pro]
v. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp]
commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, learn]
Usage examples of "conned".
He'd been feeling much better since Henry'd conned him out of Beechwoods.
M'Gee said, "I'd say the Club Conned would be one of them and there would be roulette.
They tell me she had more personal games she played with Conned, but say she played roulette on the side.
So Vance Conned gets his personal car out and takes her home and meantime the doe has called up his office nurse and asked her to go over to the house and see that his wifeis all right.
Which is all done, and Conned goes back to his chips and the nurse sees her in bed and leaves, and the maid goes back to bed.
My hunch is that Conned would have that done because he would not like to have anybody make the pay sign at him, except in the way of legitimate graft.
So I can't figure why Conned would have Matson bumped off for talking about murder.
You got Vance Conned behind you and he's got the syndicate behind him.
There's some talk she was going around with Conned in an intimate way also.
So Matson tried to put the bite on Conned, figuring that if the case got opened up before the tough grand jury that's sitting now it would all bounce back on Conned's gambling joint, and he would be closed up tighter than a frozen piston, and the people behind him might get sore at him and take his polo ponies away from him.
I'd say Conned got some of it for you, and that was why you had to let him take your wife and your money.
You see the party that did kill your wife, because your wife was wasting money somebody else could have fun spending, also knew what Matson knew and was trying to shake Conned down herself.
Austrian who was tipped off, in turn, by Vance Conned, who is now up north providing himself with all the necessary alibis.
So Conned wouldn't have taken the silly risk of having her knocked off in her own apartment by the sort of man anybody would remember seeing if they saw him anywhere near that apartment.
Especially after they had already conned the queens into leaving in their escape pods.