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单词 confidence man
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Definition of confidence man in English:

confidence man

noun
  • old-fashioned term for con man
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Almost no marriages in the two data sets, however, represent the actions of a confidence man or woman who maintained several households simultaneously.
    • The world is filled with confidence men, but few of them operate on a world stage.
    • The confidence man is a stock figure in American culture, originating - perhaps not coincidentally - in the boomtowns of the Old Southwest.
    • But you have to wonder whether confidence men and charlatans don't have some beef with this man for diminishing their reputation.
    • By the antebellum period, the American icons of the self-made man and the confidence man were locked in fatal embrace.
    • As a result she has lost her ability to tell a confidence man from an upstanding citizen, and with it, her ability to protect her daughter's high social status and the wealth that attends it.
    • The confidence man's utter self-assurance can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    • The modern philosopher claims, like a sort of confidence man, that if once we will grant him this, the rest will be easy; he will straighten out the world, if once he is allowed to give this one twist to the mind.
    • They lived by their own wits as confidence men and tricksters.
    • In reality, he may have been one of its greatest confidence men.
    • He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
    • Moreover, like the confidence man he deplores, he promises more than he delivers.
    • In the country that created the confidence man as a cultural hero and celebrated the slogan ‘Winning is the only thing’ as moral wisdom, fair play is a problematic ideal.
    • I am curious to see if there are any limits to how far a confidence man can go before the neo-Confederate rank and file realizes it is being played for a collective fool.
    • In particular, she calls attention to the two men's differing aptitudes for recognizing a confidence man.
    • Like any confidence man, the coercer can only exploit a weakness that we refuse to confront directly, ourselves.
    • The confidence men I was reading about, most of whom operated a hundred years ago on the other side of the Atlantic, would throw themselves under a bus rather than con some poor old lady out of her life savings.
    • A child molester and an accused confidence man were similarly beaten and banished.
    • The problems go deeper than that: not that I underestimate my abilities as a confidence man, but pulling the wool over her eyes is like dancing with a hungry jaguar.
    • They are all a bunch of charlatans and confidence men.

Definition of confidence man in US English:

confidence man

nounˈkänfəd(ə)ns man
  • old-fashioned term for con man
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In reality, he may have been one of its greatest confidence men.
    • In the country that created the confidence man as a cultural hero and celebrated the slogan ‘Winning is the only thing’ as moral wisdom, fair play is a problematic ideal.
    • The problems go deeper than that: not that I underestimate my abilities as a confidence man, but pulling the wool over her eyes is like dancing with a hungry jaguar.
    • The modern philosopher claims, like a sort of confidence man, that if once we will grant him this, the rest will be easy; he will straighten out the world, if once he is allowed to give this one twist to the mind.
    • Like any confidence man, the coercer can only exploit a weakness that we refuse to confront directly, ourselves.
    • The confidence man is a stock figure in American culture, originating - perhaps not coincidentally - in the boomtowns of the Old Southwest.
    • As a result she has lost her ability to tell a confidence man from an upstanding citizen, and with it, her ability to protect her daughter's high social status and the wealth that attends it.
    • The confidence man's utter self-assurance can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    • The confidence men I was reading about, most of whom operated a hundred years ago on the other side of the Atlantic, would throw themselves under a bus rather than con some poor old lady out of her life savings.
    • By the antebellum period, the American icons of the self-made man and the confidence man were locked in fatal embrace.
    • But you have to wonder whether confidence men and charlatans don't have some beef with this man for diminishing their reputation.
    • Moreover, like the confidence man he deplores, he promises more than he delivers.
    • I am curious to see if there are any limits to how far a confidence man can go before the neo-Confederate rank and file realizes it is being played for a collective fool.
    • He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
    • Almost no marriages in the two data sets, however, represent the actions of a confidence man or woman who maintained several households simultaneously.
    • They are all a bunch of charlatans and confidence men.
    • A child molester and an accused confidence man were similarly beaten and banished.
    • They lived by their own wits as confidence men and tricksters.
    • The world is filled with confidence men, but few of them operate on a world stage.
    • In particular, she calls attention to the two men's differing aptitudes for recognizing a confidence man.
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