How to Use con man in a Sentence

con man

noun

• Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Oct. 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
• Anyone willing to go that far, the con man’s theory goes, must be telling the truth.
  — Brad Raffensperger, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
• The con man had been charged with second-degree murder.
  — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
• But there were still no bodies and the con man was admitting to nothing.
  — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 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
• Purlie’s a benign enough con man whose con is social justice.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Now this con man is worshipped like a demigod — selling Bibles alongside sneakers.
  — Lz Granderson, The Denver Post, 23 July 2024
• 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
• But Tartuffe is a hypocrite and a con man, who his scheming to seduce Orgon’s wife, Elmire, and get his hands on Orgon’s fortune.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• In each one, con man Tom Ripley comes dangerously close to being caught or killed.
  — Adrienne Wyper, theweek, 23 Jan. 2024
• Bradley Cooper stars as Stan Carlisle, a con man who learns how to fake (and monetize) psychic powers through his time in a 1940s carnival.
  — Ilana Gordon, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Group euphoria is blinding some people to the con man who captains the Republican team.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2024
• Treat yourself to seasons 1 and 2 (featuring Christopher Walken as a charming con man) before joining the gang for one last caper.
  — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 31 May 2024
• The film follows the story of a young woman (Weaving) who skips her small town — in search of her estranged mother (Sedgwick) — alongside a charismatic con man (Gallner) on the run from the law.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2024
• Vance was a harsh critic of Trump when the real estate mogul first burst onto the political scene, calling him an con man and a potential dictator.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• The con man, now facing the possibility of decades behind bars, pleaded with Schofield to remain on bail until his sentencing.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
• While devising an escape plan involving Henry and the (unseen) woman prison counselor who has taken a shine to the newcomer, Gene spouts wisdom like a con man on a book tour.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• In this melodious throwback, a traveling con man who's in need of money persuades River City natives to purchase instruments and uniforms from him and start a band.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 16 May 2023
• For much of his adult life, police and court records show, Staveley had been a serial con man, probation violator, and harasser of women.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The main substance of the movie is Cornwell’s reminiscences of his father, Ronnie, a con man with big dreams and reckless schemes who struggled hectically to stay a step ahead of creditors and the law, and didn’t always succeed.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
• The new Netflix series follows the infamous fictional con man across over 200 locations.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2024
• That’s because the kooky performances help bring every wild scene and gothic set piece to life, as an oddly macabre clan (helmed by Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston) spars with a con man who resembles their lost relative.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
• Milton was convicted of fraud charges after prosecutors portrayed him as a con man after starting his company in a Utah basement six years earlier.
  — Larry Neumeister, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Cook had embarked on a lucrative lecture tour by this point, fueling suspicions that America’s most popular explorer was a con man.
  — Time, 15 July 2023
• The story of a con man who won a freakish election by hoodwinking everyone around him was easier to take than one about complex political dynamics and bad decision-making in the suburbs of Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• Culture has learned a lesson from literature’s most prominent con man: A personality morphs and stabilizes depending on the circumstances, and the most common form of art being performed right now is the continual reinvention of the self.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
• About 2 million California Republicans voted for a lying, uncivil, fraudulent con man.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024