confidence trick

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confidence trick

noun confidence tricks

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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@misc{confidence_trick_2026,
  title = {confidence trick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/confidence%20trick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}