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gen. speculator; swindler; spieler; adventurer; racketeer; scam artist (Lavrov); con artist (Tanya Gesse); chancer (laf2laf); grifter (hizman); flimflammer (ART Vancouver); embezzler (Interex); big-timer (высшего класса Taras); con-trickster (Taras); gambler; fraud artist (Баян); hustler (Александр_10); con man; confidence trickster (Taras); scammer (Ремедиос_П); sharper (Taras); fraudsman (xmoffx); scamster (a person who deceives people to get their money : a person who scams people ---- https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/scamster kutepov); bunco artist (manstirbt)
Игорь Миг smooth operator; confidence artist; cheat
amer. slicker (Taras); a promoter of wild cheating schemes (from German "schwindler" Val_Ships); con man (he's an actor, not a con man Val_Ships); swindler (from German "schwindler"; a promoter of wild cheating schemes); snowman (a trickster Taras)
busin. crook; shady dealer; spiv
crim.law., amer. con man (None of his six wives knew about the existence of the others. They all fell for this con man vowing true love to each one of them. — Ни одна из его шести жён не знала о существовании других. Они все влюблялись в этого мошенника, клявшегося каждой из них в вечной любви.); confidence man (дословно, человек, играющий на доверии других людей)
derog. a fraud for money ("Speaking of David Suzuki... I was teching a show he was presenting at, and he just completely had a shitty attitude to the people who were doing their jobs to help the dude. There's no room for that, regardless of who you are." "On top of being a massive asshole, he doesn’t even practice what he preaches. Dude is a fraud for money." (Reddit) ART Vancouver)
fig. rook
Gruzovik, inf. swellmobsman (a criminal who dresses fashionably and acts with seeming respectability; chiefly British merriam-webster.com)
inf. a scam artist; thimblerigger (VLZ_58); a conman (мошенник, обманщик a swindler)
product. Murphy man (Yeldar Azanbayev)
sec.sys. trickster
slang ramper; slickster (VLZ_58)
Игорь Миг, inf. rip-off champion
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