Synonyms of conning

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verb (1)

present participle of con

1

as in studying

to commit to memory

usually candidates con their entire campaign speech, right down to the jokes they supposedly ad-lib

Synonyms & Similar Words

• studying
• learning
• memorizing
• knowing
• remembering
• retaining
• understanding
• grasping
• getting
• recalling
• accepting
• apprehending
• thinking (of)
• comprehending
• absorbing
• recollecting
• reliving
• digesting
• minding
• reminiscing (about)
• harking back (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• forgetting
• unlearning
• ignoring
• neglecting
• disregarding
• overlooking
• slighting
• passing over
• misremembering
• disremembering
• slurring (over)
• overpassing

2

as in examining

to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)

seemed to be conning his face for any sign of uncertainty

Synonyms & Similar Words

• examining
• surveying
• scanning
• reviewing
• inspecting
• viewing
• watching
• analyzing
• scrutinizing
• overseeing
• auditing
• checking (out)
• studying
• going over
• investigating
• exploring
• overlooking
• noticing
• dissecting
• combing
• observing
• researching
• perusing
• classifying
• probing
• parsing
• categorizing
• plumbing
• poring (over)
• delving (into)
• reinspecting
• resurveying
• picking over
• re-reviewing
• rereviewing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• skimming
• glancing (at or over)

conning

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verb (2)

present participle of con

1

as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

a fly-by-night operator who had conned hundreds of would-be homeowners out of their hard-earned money

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• squeezing
• hustling
• plucking
• screwing
• stinging
• sticking
• beating
• doing
• defrauding
• tricking
• swindling
• deceiving
• bilking
• victimizing
• fleecing
• suckering
• exploiting
• rooking
• fooling
• shortchanging
• mulcting
• bleeding
• shorting
• cozening
• diddling
• stiffing
• reaming
• chiselling
• fiddling
• chiseling
• betraying
• gaffing
• skinning
• hosing
• shaking down
• nobbling
• extorting
• ripping off
• doing in
• flimflamming
• duping
• thimblerigging
• chousing
• euchring
• taking for a ride
• gulling
• taking to the cleaners
• wrenching
• skunking
• overcharging
• gouging
• clipping
• nicking
• milking
• selling a bill of goods to
• wringing
• wresting
• soaking
• bamboozling
• double-crossing
• bitching
• fast-talking
• roping (in)

2

as in tricking

to cause to believe what is untrue

tried to con me into thinking that he had actually won the lottery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricking
• fooling
• deceiving
• duping
• hoodwinking
• deluding
• gulling
• misinforming
• teasing
• bamboozling
• suckering
• kidding
• misleading
• bluffing
• misguiding
• hoaxing
• cheating
• cozening
• snookering
• humbugging
• juggling
• spoofing
• catching
• gaffing
• having
• stinging
• beguiling
• stringing along
• sucking in
• burning
• snowing
• taking in
• having on
• faking out
• hornswoggling
• gammoning
• buffaloing
• doing a number on
• defrauding
• swindling
• pulling one's leg
• leading one up the garden path
• leading one down the garden path
• fleecing
• sticking
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• rooking
• shortchanging
• mulcting
• hustling
• putting on
• diddling
• chiselling
• chiseling
• bleeding
• squeezing
• skinning
• flimflamming
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• telling
• disclosing
• debunking
• unmasking
• showing up
• divulging
• undeceiving
• unveiling
• disabusing
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disenchanting

conning

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verb (3)

present participle of conn

as in steering

to operate or control the course of

there was white-knuckle tension as the captain conned the gunboat through the mine-infested harbor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• steering
• piloting
• navigating
• hijacking
• helming
• commandeering
• highjacking