| 词汇 | confidence-game |
| 释义 | confidence game noun[ C ] USukus → confidence trick Examples of confidence gameconfidence game A confidence trick or confidencegame is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This scheme, a form of confidencegame, consisted of bilking wealthy widows of their money by encouraging them to invest in horses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. An individual that practiced such a confidencegame would be branded as a two-penny thief, and would soon be consigned to a house of correction. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He failed to convince the officials, who also suspected trickery or a confidencegame. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Doll and company decide to set up a confidencegame, what was then called coney-catching. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They were variants of the brokered loan confidencegame. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The men who worked this form of confidencegame often acted as gigolos to the widows they bilked. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A false document is usually created as an artistic exercise, but occasionally is promoted in conjunction with a criminal enterprise, such as fraud, forgery, or a confidencegame. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Appealing to his greed and his masculinity, she convinces him to use his skills with crooked dice in a confidencegame to help her separate convention-goers from their money. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As long as capital flows freely, nations will be vulnerable to speculative attack and policy makers will be forced to play the confidencegame. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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