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confidence trick

noun

Definitions

  1. A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their…

    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.

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