Meanings
plural confidence tricks
- A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).
He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 558
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
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