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Con artist

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who uses confidence tricks to defraud or swindle people after first gaining their trust with a series of confidence games; a scam operator, confidence trickster.

    "That greedy con artist would swindle you at any cost."

  2. 2
    a swindler who exploits the confidence of their victim wordnet

Etymology

A clipping of confidence artist.

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