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verbconning, cons, conned kɒnkɑn [with object]informal Persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them. I conned him into giving me your home number she was jailed for conning her aunt out of £500,000 Example sentencesExamples - The Internet giant has taken almost two weeks to respond to allegations of a scam designed to con its users out of £199.
- He couldn't believe that he had let Frankie con him into believing him.
- Since the beginning of June there have been 39 burglaries in which thieves have conned their way into homes.
- Other crimes involve impersonating international police investigators, snatching purses, and gangs conning tourists into the ever-popular ‘black money scam’.
- Governments only need to spend millions of dollars trying to con us into believing that they've done a good job if they haven't.
- It's certainly totally immoral to con people that they have a psychic connection when there is none.
- He managed to con people into believing he was an airline pilot, a lawyer and a doctor.
- He is charged with sending spam emails which conned people into believing that they had won millions of dollars in overseas lotteries, or inheritance, or through a business opportunity.
- They con the girls into believing they are about to make it onto the front page of every magazine.
- Today, she is starting three-and-a-half years behind bars for her latest deceptions, plus six months for trying to con the judge into believing a fish and chip shop was a hospital.
- It works the first time, causing the person being conned to believe that the rest of the notes will be cleaned and thus yield a fortune.
- What happened is some very smart people got conned by the little office conman, and that's what this kid turns out to be.
- Telephone fraudsters are being foiled in their attempts to con people out of hundreds of pounds.
- Police believe the man conned his way into the 41-year-old victim's house by offering to do building work.
- Most of these reports were of tourists being conned or swindled.
- Also, the trailers and TV ads are conning us into believing that it's about a talking kangaroo.
- His exceptional skills at grifting combined with his good looks have allowed him to believe that he can con anybody.
- ‘Up is down, and down is up… My feeling is that someone has essentially conned her into believing that she's going to be voting,’ he said.
- According to Jevans, it is hard to know how many people are conned by phishing scams.
- We allow criminals who have stolen or conned people out of their money to retain their assets even though the property that they have taken has not been recovered.
Synonyms swindle, defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, rook, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed
nounPlural cons kɒnkɑn informal An instance of deceiving or tricking someone. the Charter is a glossy public relations con Example sentencesExamples - At worst, it seemed to be a species of con game - a conviction bolstered by the steadily rising number of frauds, defalcations and market manipulations.
- A lot of the con artists I've arrested are unbelievably charming.
- For those who enjoy movies about heists, cons, and double-crosses, this will satisfy.
- Many cons and scams (throughout the world) depend on the greed and dishonesty of the victim to help the scam along.
- The ‘money manager’ is actually a second con artist who is complicit in the scam.
- So many complaints about the con, which demands a fee for do-it-yourself services, have been made that the town's Trading Standards section has sent out a new warning to all businesses.
- It does not lend any credibility to the possibility of Jimmy as a con artist.
- Too bad they are catering to a con artist's conceit.
- This swindle is commonly known as ‘419 fraud,’ after the section of the Nigerian penal code covering cons.
- This person could therefore be a successful writer - or con artist.
- Are you deluding yourself or are you a con artist?
- I was turning into a regular con artist these days.
- Rita suspects a beautiful con artist is really behind it.
- Black-cab drivers should beware after a serial fare-dodger escaped a prison sentence last week, despite the brazen cons he pulled on trusting cabbies.
- Homes in Writtle, Chelmsford, Springfield and Purleigh have been targeted with three cons used to trick elderly householders.
- Dean's behaviour is just the latest example of the big con many major party politicians engage in.
- Whatever their merits as science, the UK farm-scale trials risk being remembered as a political con.
- City of York Trading Standards is often at its busiest in the festive season investigating scams and cons that can spoil many people's Christmas.
- ‘He's a con artist, he's evil, he's a very dangerous man,’ she said.
- I've obviously become rather cynical over time, but then when it comes to card tricks, my first thought these days is to look for the con.
Synonyms swindle, deception, trick, racket, bit of sharp practice, fraud informal scam, con trick, sting, gyp, kite, diddle, rip-off, fiddle, swizzle, swizz North American informal bunco, boondoggle, hustle, grift Australian informal rort
Origin Late 19th century (originally US): abbreviation of confidence, as in confidence trick. nounPlural cons kɒnkɑn A disadvantage of or argument against something. borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer Example sentencesExamples - Year in and year out the same comments are trotted out as to the pros and cons of the difficulty of the tests.
- There is no real way to predict what any one individual would do in this case, so I think plenty of thought should be given to the pros and cons of the situation.
- Besides checking out what's for sale, you can pick up good information on the pros and cons of ownership.
- If one is balanced one can weigh the pros and cons of particular situations more easily.
- In his mind and on paper, he constantly found himself breaking down the pros and cons of continuing his career.
- We see no doubt that the Election Commission came to its decision after bearing in mind the pros and cons of the whole situation.
- It's refreshing to hear an artist sing the pros as opposed to crying the cons of piracy on the Net.
- Do you see any potential cons with that kind of set-up?
- It is essential, however, that the pros and cons of the currency are thoroughly examined and the arguments presented to Britain's voters in a clear and unbiased manner.
- But then I came here too, and though the cons of the decision greatly outnumbered the pros, at least Halloween was again entertaining.
- In fact, coffee's pros probably outweigh its cons.
- Before launching into the pros and cons of the situation, a little understanding of what constitutes a ‘heart attack’ is in order.
- The increase in decisional balance pros was expected, but the increase in decisional balance cons was not expected based on previous research.
- As the Walkers argue in their analysis, it is necessary to consider privatisations on a case-by-case basis, looking at the pros and cons in each instance.
- The cons are that you won't be able to see the sun, you can't eat food again, you'll be viewed as a monster by some, an angel by others, and some other things.
- What are the cons of striving for a drug-free workplace?
- Hence the report is biased by the opinion of the author, playing down the cons and talking up the pros.
- Of course, the con to this is that people at the lower end of each division frequently do very well.
- Headlines tout the pros and cons of stock options in a volatile market.
- Reed weighed the pros and cons of the situation.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin contra 'against'. nounPlural cons kɒnkɑn informal A convict. you don't snitch to the prison authorities on another con Example sentencesExamples - At North Sea, cons regularly slip unflattering press cuttings under the door of Archer's cell in a fruitless effort to rile the peer.
- The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.
- There was a sentimental love for an old con, an eager romanticising of gaol and crime and social delinquency.
- Too many characters and situations are implausible - you surely wouldn't find such a tame, gentle set of cons in any prison.
- Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
- WooJin grinned, he could almost see the shock on the con's face.
- Hungry cons will be able to buy snacks at the prison commissary, or perhaps steal food from the weaker inmates..
- It's a scenario that plunges you back into the time of scratchy movies where the cons wore pyjama suits with black arrows on them and Cagney was king; back to the days of the early crime shows like The Naked City and Dragnet.
- A prison cell, semi-luxuriant, for a deserving con - and I was in it!
- Inmates had their own cells, an improvement over bunking with another con.
- In the film they play escaped cons with bad teeth.
- Let all but death row cons and pedophiles join up out of prison for a pardon.
- Nice, that is, until four loose criminals with submachine guns burst into the prison, overpowered the guards, and robbed their fellow cons.
- She doesn't even tell us how many cons are daddies.
- If you're an ex con, or your other half is currently in the slammer, there's a place on the internet where you can go and talk to others in your situation.
- This sassy St-Jovite resident has been teaching cons their Ps and Qs for close to nine years now.
- But I think he, like many other cons, didn't really play that sexual identity political game.
- Just a day before salvation comes, a burly, angry con assaults Nick and sticks his shiv into Nick's gizzard.
- But when Mr Price approached the TV room he was told he ‘could not go in because there was a con in there and two prison officers’.
- The cons couldn't move, they were handcuffed to a bar in front of the seat.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation. verbconning, cons, conned kɒnkɑn [with object]archaic Study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing) the children conned their pages with a great show of industry Example sentencesExamples - We hope to show that a logic-based learning method can be applied to less conned learning tasks.
- "Set in a notebook, learned & conned by rote" From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
- Anyone who does know something about it is more likely to have acquired that knowledge in bits by conning books (however carefully) or taking a few workshops on weekends or for a week in the summer.
Origin Middle English cunne, conne, con, variants of can1. nounPlural cons kɒnkɑn informal A convention, especially one for science fiction enthusiasts. Example sentencesExamples - Given the way I'm working at the con, I can do an hour a day, every day, signing.
- This done, and for the first time ever, I managed to leave for the con by 10 am fairly sure that everything (so far) was under control.
- The IFilm crew has a bevy of videos shot at the con, including their annual rundown of scantily-clad women.
- I once asked him if SF fandom had ever been in touch, asked him to a con, or to speak to or read at a meeting, taken him out for a drink…
- You do have major conventions in other cities and there's kind of an understanding among some cons not to invade one another's turf.
- Colin, despite his general enthusiasm for cons, harbors contempt towards what he considers the illiteracy of many fans.
- Those who are not actively trying to be offended can get through cons by choosing to not spend time at the vendor and guest booths with adult material.
- He had met her in a chat room a month before the con.
- I waited until the next con and let the convention officials tell him how it would henceforth be.
- It was also equally nice to have some new faces at the con, and they were all so well behaved so they can attend next year as well.
- In fact, the whole con website is full of valuable info, including ways to get to the con that you probably didn't think of.
- Finally though, the company could no longer justify the expense and Julie had to either pay his own way or not go to the con.
verbconning, cons, conned kɒnkɑn [with object]Nautical Direct the steering of (a ship) he hadn't conned anything bigger than a Boston whaler Example sentencesExamples - Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
- Why is the term ‘bridge’ used to signify the place from where a ship is conned?
- Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
nounPlural cons kɒnkɑn the conNautical The action or post of conning a ship. I quickly took the conn and restored the channel course Example sentencesExamples - Now, Mr. Morton, you have the conn and I have to get back to SickBay if I'm to be there when my son is born!
- Cursing at the grueling task ahead of her she took out the Panel bolt ejector and began removing the outdated panel from the conn station.
- The backup conn console across from Aaron exploded in a shower of sparks.
- ‘Take the con,’ Saffron said, issuing what was probably the first order she'd ever given in her life.
- Jetrel said getting out of the command chair and went over to the conn station.
- Cameron spends most of the film at the conn of a submarine, bathed in powder-blue light.
- For example, his combat information center officer and operations officer had the conn through most of the Suez transit.
- As rapidly as he had walked before, he went to the Directorate, and took the conn.
- An announcement came over the intercom: ‘QM1 Grob has the conn.’
- In season one episode one, he's simply a conn officer.
Origin Early 17th century: apparently a weakened form of obsolete cond 'conduct, guide', from Old French conduire, from Latin conducere (see conduce). verbkänkɑn [with object]informal Persuade (someone) to do or believe something, typically by use of a deception. I conned him into giving me your home number she was jailed for conning her aunt out of $500,000 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Up is down, and down is up… My feeling is that someone has essentially conned her into believing that she's going to be voting,’ he said.
- What happened is some very smart people got conned by the little office conman, and that's what this kid turns out to be.
- According to Jevans, it is hard to know how many people are conned by phishing scams.
- He is charged with sending spam emails which conned people into believing that they had won millions of dollars in overseas lotteries, or inheritance, or through a business opportunity.
- Governments only need to spend millions of dollars trying to con us into believing that they've done a good job if they haven't.
- They con the girls into believing they are about to make it onto the front page of every magazine.
- It works the first time, causing the person being conned to believe that the rest of the notes will be cleaned and thus yield a fortune.
- Today, she is starting three-and-a-half years behind bars for her latest deceptions, plus six months for trying to con the judge into believing a fish and chip shop was a hospital.
- His exceptional skills at grifting combined with his good looks have allowed him to believe that he can con anybody.
- Other crimes involve impersonating international police investigators, snatching purses, and gangs conning tourists into the ever-popular ‘black money scam’.
- Telephone fraudsters are being foiled in their attempts to con people out of hundreds of pounds.
- The Internet giant has taken almost two weeks to respond to allegations of a scam designed to con its users out of £199.
- He couldn't believe that he had let Frankie con him into believing him.
- We allow criminals who have stolen or conned people out of their money to retain their assets even though the property that they have taken has not been recovered.
- Most of these reports were of tourists being conned or swindled.
- Also, the trailers and TV ads are conning us into believing that it's about a talking kangaroo.
- Since the beginning of June there have been 39 burglaries in which thieves have conned their way into homes.
- Police believe the man conned his way into the 41-year-old victim's house by offering to do building work.
- It's certainly totally immoral to con people that they have a psychic connection when there is none.
- He managed to con people into believing he was an airline pilot, a lawyer and a doctor.
Synonyms swindle, defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, rook, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed
nounkänkɑn informal An instance of deceiving or tricking someone. when depositors, realizing that the whole thing is a con, demand repayment Example sentencesExamples - City of York Trading Standards is often at its busiest in the festive season investigating scams and cons that can spoil many people's Christmas.
- Are you deluding yourself or are you a con artist?
- It does not lend any credibility to the possibility of Jimmy as a con artist.
- Many cons and scams (throughout the world) depend on the greed and dishonesty of the victim to help the scam along.
- Whatever their merits as science, the UK farm-scale trials risk being remembered as a political con.
- At worst, it seemed to be a species of con game - a conviction bolstered by the steadily rising number of frauds, defalcations and market manipulations.
- Black-cab drivers should beware after a serial fare-dodger escaped a prison sentence last week, despite the brazen cons he pulled on trusting cabbies.
- Dean's behaviour is just the latest example of the big con many major party politicians engage in.
- So many complaints about the con, which demands a fee for do-it-yourself services, have been made that the town's Trading Standards section has sent out a new warning to all businesses.
- I was turning into a regular con artist these days.
- For those who enjoy movies about heists, cons, and double-crosses, this will satisfy.
- This swindle is commonly known as ‘419 fraud,’ after the section of the Nigerian penal code covering cons.
- Homes in Writtle, Chelmsford, Springfield and Purleigh have been targeted with three cons used to trick elderly householders.
- Rita suspects a beautiful con artist is really behind it.
- A lot of the con artists I've arrested are unbelievably charming.
- ‘He's a con artist, he's evil, he's a very dangerous man,’ she said.
- The ‘money manager’ is actually a second con artist who is complicit in the scam.
- This person could therefore be a successful writer - or con artist.
- I've obviously become rather cynical over time, but then when it comes to card tricks, my first thought these days is to look for the con.
- Too bad they are catering to a con artist's conceit.
Synonyms swindle, deception, trick, racket, bit of sharp practice, fraud
Origin Late 19th century (originally US): abbreviation of confidence, as in confidence trick. nounkɑnkän A disadvantage. borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer Example sentencesExamples - It's refreshing to hear an artist sing the pros as opposed to crying the cons of piracy on the Net.
- Besides checking out what's for sale, you can pick up good information on the pros and cons of ownership.
- What are the cons of striving for a drug-free workplace?
- Headlines tout the pros and cons of stock options in a volatile market.
- Before launching into the pros and cons of the situation, a little understanding of what constitutes a ‘heart attack’ is in order.
- We see no doubt that the Election Commission came to its decision after bearing in mind the pros and cons of the whole situation.
- Hence the report is biased by the opinion of the author, playing down the cons and talking up the pros.
- It is essential, however, that the pros and cons of the currency are thoroughly examined and the arguments presented to Britain's voters in a clear and unbiased manner.
- The increase in decisional balance pros was expected, but the increase in decisional balance cons was not expected based on previous research.
- In fact, coffee's pros probably outweigh its cons.
- But then I came here too, and though the cons of the decision greatly outnumbered the pros, at least Halloween was again entertaining.
- As the Walkers argue in their analysis, it is necessary to consider privatisations on a case-by-case basis, looking at the pros and cons in each instance.
- Do you see any potential cons with that kind of set-up?
- Of course, the con to this is that people at the lower end of each division frequently do very well.
- The cons are that you won't be able to see the sun, you can't eat food again, you'll be viewed as a monster by some, an angel by others, and some other things.
- Reed weighed the pros and cons of the situation.
- In his mind and on paper, he constantly found himself breaking down the pros and cons of continuing his career.
- Year in and year out the same comments are trotted out as to the pros and cons of the difficulty of the tests.
- There is no real way to predict what any one individual would do in this case, so I think plenty of thought should be given to the pros and cons of the situation.
- If one is balanced one can weigh the pros and cons of particular situations more easily.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin contra ‘against’. nounkɑnkän informal A convict. you don't snitch to the prison authorities on another con Example sentencesExamples - But I think he, like many other cons, didn't really play that sexual identity political game.
- In the film they play escaped cons with bad teeth.
- Just a day before salvation comes, a burly, angry con assaults Nick and sticks his shiv into Nick's gizzard.
- Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
- If you're an ex con, or your other half is currently in the slammer, there's a place on the internet where you can go and talk to others in your situation.
- There was a sentimental love for an old con, an eager romanticising of gaol and crime and social delinquency.
- A prison cell, semi-luxuriant, for a deserving con - and I was in it!
- But when Mr Price approached the TV room he was told he ‘could not go in because there was a con in there and two prison officers’.
- She doesn't even tell us how many cons are daddies.
- Inmates had their own cells, an improvement over bunking with another con.
- Hungry cons will be able to buy snacks at the prison commissary, or perhaps steal food from the weaker inmates..
- The cons couldn't move, they were handcuffed to a bar in front of the seat.
- The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.
- Nice, that is, until four loose criminals with submachine guns burst into the prison, overpowered the guards, and robbed their fellow cons.
- Too many characters and situations are implausible - you surely wouldn't find such a tame, gentle set of cons in any prison.
- WooJin grinned, he could almost see the shock on the con's face.
- Let all but death row cons and pedophiles join up out of prison for a pardon.
- It's a scenario that plunges you back into the time of scratchy movies where the cons wore pyjama suits with black arrows on them and Cagney was king; back to the days of the early crime shows like The Naked City and Dragnet.
- At North Sea, cons regularly slip unflattering press cuttings under the door of Archer's cell in a fruitless effort to rile the peer.
- This sassy St-Jovite resident has been teaching cons their Ps and Qs for close to nine years now.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation. verbkänkɑn [with object]archaic Study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing) the children conned their pages with a great show of industry Example sentencesExamples - Anyone who does know something about it is more likely to have acquired that knowledge in bits by conning books (however carefully) or taking a few workshops on weekends or for a week in the summer.
- We hope to show that a logic-based learning method can be applied to less conned learning tasks.
- "Set in a notebook, learned & conned by rote" From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
Origin Middle English cunne, conne, con, variants of can. nounkɑnkän informal A convention, especially one for science fiction enthusiasts. Example sentencesExamples - It was also equally nice to have some new faces at the con, and they were all so well behaved so they can attend next year as well.
- The IFilm crew has a bevy of videos shot at the con, including their annual rundown of scantily-clad women.
- Those who are not actively trying to be offended can get through cons by choosing to not spend time at the vendor and guest booths with adult material.
- You do have major conventions in other cities and there's kind of an understanding among some cons not to invade one another's turf.
- I waited until the next con and let the convention officials tell him how it would henceforth be.
- Colin, despite his general enthusiasm for cons, harbors contempt towards what he considers the illiteracy of many fans.
- In fact, the whole con website is full of valuable info, including ways to get to the con that you probably didn't think of.
- I once asked him if SF fandom had ever been in touch, asked him to a con, or to speak to or read at a meeting, taken him out for a drink…
- Finally though, the company could no longer justify the expense and Julie had to either pay his own way or not go to the con.
- Given the way I'm working at the con, I can do an hour a day, every day, signing.
- This done, and for the first time ever, I managed to leave for the con by 10 am fairly sure that everything (so far) was under control.
- He had met her in a chat room a month before the con.
verbkänkɑn [with object]Nautical Direct the steering of (a ship) he hadn't conned anything bigger than a Boston whaler Example sentencesExamples - Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
- Why is the term ‘bridge’ used to signify the place from where a ship is conned?
- Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
nounkänkɑn the conNautical The action or post of conning a ship. I quickly took the conn and restored the channel course Example sentencesExamples - The backup conn console across from Aaron exploded in a shower of sparks.
- ‘Take the con,’ Saffron said, issuing what was probably the first order she'd ever given in her life.
- Cameron spends most of the film at the conn of a submarine, bathed in powder-blue light.
- Now, Mr. Morton, you have the conn and I have to get back to SickBay if I'm to be there when my son is born!
- An announcement came over the intercom: ‘QM1 Grob has the conn.’
- For example, his combat information center officer and operations officer had the conn through most of the Suez transit.
- In season one episode one, he's simply a conn officer.
- As rapidly as he had walked before, he went to the Directorate, and took the conn.
- Jetrel said getting out of the command chair and went over to the conn station.
- Cursing at the grueling task ahead of her she took out the Panel bolt ejector and began removing the outdated panel from the conn station.
Origin Early 17th century: apparently a weakened form of obsolete cond ‘conduct, guide’, from Old French conduire, from Latin conducere (see conduce). |