How to Use con man in a Sentence

con man

noun
  • Some called him brilliant, others a con man.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And that guy must have been the con man of all time (inaudible).
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Before you got twisted up by this lying con man?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Purlie’s a benign enough con man whose con is social justice.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • But there were still no bodies and the con man was admitting to nothing.
    — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
  • Anyone willing to go that far, the con man’s theory goes, must be telling the truth.
    — Brad Raffensperger, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Now this con man is worshipped like a demigod — selling Bibles alongside sneakers.
    — Lz Granderson, The Denver Post, 23 July 2024
  • The story follows Susy in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a con man and two ex-convicts.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2023
  • Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
  • While Ben is honest and skilled with a gun, Sam is a sly con man who depends on his clever thinking and schemes.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The business model is a fraud, and @Saylor is the biggest con man on Wall Street.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Quinn VanAntwerp makes his con man character, Gordy, lovable.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In each one, con man Tom Ripley comes dangerously close to being caught or killed.
    — Adrienne Wyper, theweek, 23 Jan. 2024
  • To my enormous embarrassment and regret I, like many others, was duped by a world-class con man.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • To my enormous embarrassment and regret, I — like many others — was duped by a world-class con man.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Instead, Maizy returns with a con man who aims to steal the county’s mineral resources.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • What is the validity of a bill of sale, the novel poses, when any white con man can claim the nearest Black person as his own?
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • In 2016, it was revealed that a con man had swindled Nicole out of $10 million.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But, still, the sequel is a little toothless — not just Nick’s move from con man to cop but throughout the metropolis.
    — Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • Legendary’s Draemond Winding is not a con man, just an empty suit—Goliath with a sales pitch.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Group euphoria is blinding some people to the con man who captains the Republican team.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • Another way of putting this is that the material rewards for bending the truth about old art could have made the Dalai Lama a con man.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Edward is there to persuade her to write one more novel about Ripley, the charming psychopath, con man and murderer who starred in five of her books.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Hugh Grant, who was not in attendance at Friday’s premiere, plays the group’s primary foil, as an ally turned con man.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Le Carré was, after all, the son of a con man who was bent on turning his son into a perfect English gentleman.
    — airmail.news, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Far from being a mild-mannered doctor, Hawley was a con man who sold snake-oil cures to vulnerable, desperate people.
    — Jennifer Wright, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • To be a successful independent filmmaker—that is, one who is even sporadically employed—is, in essence, to be a bit of a con man.
    — Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • His story follows interstellar con man Harry Mudd.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
  • But the story’s main drama is Maud’s relationship with a con man, who becomes her primary caregiver and steals her money.
    — Victoria Uren, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025

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