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con

[ US /ˈkɑn/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒn/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.
    much was written pro and con
NOUN
  1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  2. an argument opposed to a proposal
  3. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
VERB
  1. deprive of by deceit
    He swindled me out of my inheritance
    She defrauded the customers who trusted her
  2. commit to memory; learn by heart
    Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?

How To Use con In A Sentence

  • In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
  • You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
  • It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
  • Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
  • The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
  • The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
  • If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
  • Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
  • When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
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