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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Angela Carter

Meaning of "confidence trick" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFIDENCE TRICK

confidence trick play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFIDENCE TRICK

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Confidence trick is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONFIDENCE TRICK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confidence trick

A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, in the classical sense of trust. A confidence artist is an individual, operating alone or in concert with others, who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté, or greed.

Definition of confidence trick in the English dictionary

The definition of confidence trick in the dictionary is a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler Informal shortened forms: con trick, con game.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFIDENCE TRICK

confidant
confidante
confide
confidence
confidence game
confidence interval
confidence level
confidence man
confidence trickster
confidence vote
confidency
confident
confidential
confidentiality
confidentially
confidentialness
confidently
confider
confiding
confidingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFIDENCE TRICK

brick
can´t take a trick
card trick
con trick
Croagh Patrick
dirty trick
do the trick
Downpatrick
Fitzpatrick
hat-trick
Indian rope-trick
Kirkpatrick
out-trick
party trick
Patrick
quick trick
rope trick
strick
three-card trick
trick
turn a trick

Synonyms and antonyms of confidence trick in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «confidence trick» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFIDENCE TRICK

Find out the translation of confidence trick to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confidence trick from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confidence trick» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

骗局
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estafa
570 millions of speakers

English

confidence trick
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्मविश्वास चाल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

خدعة الثقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мошенничество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confiança truque
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আস্থা কৌতুক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

abus de confiance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keyakinan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trickbetrug
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

信用詐欺
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신뢰 트릭
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Trick keyakinan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Bí quyết tự tin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பிக்கை தந்திரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आत्मविश्वास युक्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Güven hüneri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fiducia trick
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sztuczka zaufanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шахрайство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

încredere truc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τέχνασμα εμπιστοσύνης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vertroue truuk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bondfångeri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tillit trick
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confidence trick

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFIDENCE TRICK»

The term «confidence trick» is normally little used and occupies the 118.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFIDENCE TRICK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «confidence trick» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «confidence trick» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confidence trick

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QUOTES WITH «CONFIDENCE TRICK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confidence trick.
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Angela Carter
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFIDENCE TRICK»

Discover the use of confidence trick in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confidence trick and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Religion the Greatest Confidence Trick in History
Read the book, and see for yourself how we have been indoctrinated, how the Old Testament and its offshoots of Christianity and Islam have been constructed from Babylonian and Egyptian religions and mythologies.
Dennis Morris, 2007
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Hoodwinking Churchill: Tito's Great Confidence Trick
Based on new information recently come to light, this history reveals how Britain's staunchly anti-communist Prime Minister was deceived into supporting communist Tito and into cutting all aid to the anti-communist forces resisting the ...
Peter Batty, 2011
3
Money creation: the great confidence trick
Self published text on the creation of money written for the general public.
Ed Burgi, 1994
4
Confidence Tricks: Confidence Trick, Pyramid Scheme, Ponzi ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
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Greek Drama
Girl: Not bad at all, the idea Was splendidly devised for a confidence trick. Here we see clearly the ingredients of a typical New Comedy pattern of intrigue: young man in love, girl, a fiery foreigner, a confidence trick. We must not of course press  ...
Harold Bloom, 2009
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Spaceflight
... school but struggle every single day. Some are very inhibited in class, although often know their stuff, do their homework, and are successful in exams. Others, however, are boisterous in class and never afraid to. 11 The Confidence Trick.
Stephen Kear, 2007
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Akbar and the Jesuits: An Account of the Jesuit Missions to ...
CHAPTER XII1 THE CONFIDENCE TRICK ALTHOUGH the Viceroys and Governors of the town displayed both respect and regard for the Fathers, there were certain Gentiles living near them who constantly sought to do them some ill turn.
Pierre Du Jarric, 1996
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Akbar and the Jesuits: An Account of the Jesuit Missions to ...
... his supper; but after taking one or two mouthfuls, he noticed something unusual in the food, and suspecting what it was, retired to his chamber and lay down, which is a sovereign remedy against CHAPTER XII THE CONFIDENCE TRICK.
Father Pierre du Jarric Jarric, 2004
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Housing Contemporary Ireland: Policy, Society and Shelter
In this vein Somerville (1998: 234) has argued, 'Participation without empowerment is ... a confidence trick performed by the controllers of an activity on participants in that activity. To the extent to which the trick works, it must be disempowering ...
Michelle Norris, Declan Redmond, 2005
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La Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle of the Century
While writing her biography of Matisse, which won the Whitbread Biography and Book of the Year 2005, Hilary Spurling came across the scandal that nearly destroyed the French Third Republic.
S Hilary, Hilary Spurling, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFIDENCE TRICK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confidence trick is used in the context of the following news items.
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MarketsChina's confidence trick: Success or failure?
The Shanghai Composite ended today with a 2.4 per cent gain, but the finishing figure doesn't begin to tell the tale of what happened. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Debt crisis: Greeks crack eurozone's smooth veneer
It now seems too late – and too loud – to manage that political confidence trick any longer. Share; Share via Email · Share on Google Plus ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
3
WMN Letters: How to deter young suicide bombers
We only have to ask where is the proof of life after death? But no one will do it because our masters perpetrate the same confidence trick on us, ... «Western Morning News, Jul 15»
4
Orson Welles: The Great Disruptor
Bookending a career that began with Citizen Kane, F for Fake is a brilliant confidence trick; and brilliance, confidence and trickery were ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
5
Belfast High Court rejects call for Finucane inquiry
At the time Mr Finucane's widow Geraldine dismissed the report a as “a sham... a whitewash... a confidence trick”. She renewed her call for a ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
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Where's the rabbi who can inspire us like Pope Francis?
Maybe it's a confidence trick - the use of an issue on which he can engage with a global public, but is powerless to do anything meaningful ... «Haaretz, Jun 15»
7
Liberating African Economic History From the Tyranny of Econometrics
... dubious were the numbers on which African economic policymaking was based. Essentially, econometricians had pulled a confidence trick. «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
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Could The Masterpiece Be A Fake? Profit, Revenge And 'The Art Of …
And the best of the forgers, it's the confidence trick rather than the object itself that convinces. You look at a lot of these pieces in a vacuum and ... «WUNC, Jun 15»
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Protesters from Stroud join mass Anti-Austerity march in London
She said, “Only the Green party understands austerity is a confidence trick being played on the British people, throwing hundreds of thousands ... «Stroud News and Journal, Jun 15»
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Davies' confidence trick revives sunshine agenda
This week, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies made a splash with an arresting full-page, paid-for advertisement in the business ... «Times LIVE, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Confidence trick [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/confidence-trick>. Apr 2024 ».
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