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confidence man

/kon-fi-duhns man/US // ˈkɒn fɪ dəns ˌmæn //

自信的人,自信者,自信的男人,自信之人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who swindles others by means of a confidence game; swindler.

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Examples

  • He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.