Con artist
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a swindler who exploits the confidence of their victim wordnet
Example
More examples"That greedy con artist would swindle you at any cost."
Etymology
A clipping of confidence artist.