How to Use con artist in a Sentence

con artist

noun
  • Who were her con artist friends?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Wouldn’t a con woman rear a child to be a con artist?
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The con artist remained on the phone to walk her through the steps.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Is there a way to reliably spot a con artist?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Chico was a piano-playing con artist.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 June 2026
  • Get past the embarrassment, get past the shame that we got duped by a con artist.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Get past the embarrassment, get past the shame that we got duped by a con artist.
    — Dan Hyman, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Rest assured that con artists are standing by to exploit gold’s allure.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Soderbergh’s films are always intrigued by process, which was perfect for a heist/con artist film.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
  • That means customers duped into sending money to con artists are often out of luck.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But the surge in online shopping over the past 10 years or so has opened the door to crooks and con artists, too.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
  • Some consumers mailed the cash to con artists, others handed over the dollars to drivers.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
  • But Clara’s twin sister Dempsey thinks the resurfaced Serene is a con artist.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 7 June 2025
  • But serial killers, spies, con artists, and criminals have also called the state their home.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Or the con artists will hack the actual realtor’s email account.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
  • John then turns the tables on the con artists, putting them through a series of twisted and terrifying traps.
    — Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • So all these skills that came together for the podcast were the same skills that came together to convict my con artist.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • To the internet writ large, Calloway become a joke, a snake, a con artist, a scammer.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • But actually, the reason why con artists are often able to re-offend is because of the shame.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
  • After the case, Natalia fears that she’ll be perceived as a monster and a con artist forever.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
  • This twangy ballad about con artists who fall in love feels like the work of that alternate-reality Swift.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • Or con artists hide behind a fake FedEx notice that says there's a delivery problem.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In the sordid world of professional thieves, con artists, and forgers, the answers are never clear.
    — Spenser Mestel, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Then, potential victims are referred to an even more professional team of con artists.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In general, con artists put you on edge by alerting you to a fake but supposedly urgent problem.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In general, con artists put you on edge by alerting you to a fake but supposedly urgent problem.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Retreat follows Liz Dawson, a con artist used to blending into crowds.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • The two actors led the 2001 comedy as a mother-daughter con artist team.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But the con artist on the run, chasing freedom, never quite able to let go of the life she was born into, contains so much of the woman who raised me.
    — Marissa Stapley, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Creatures, autonomy, and a con artist posing as a vampire slayer?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026

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