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US
/ˈkɑn/
]
[ UK /kˈɒn/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒn/ ]
ADVERB
-
in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.
much was written pro and con
NOUN
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- an argument opposed to a proposal
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
VERB
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deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her -
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.