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Example sentences for: conned

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Two years ago, Smiley published an essay in Harper's --a manifesto, really--claiming that readers have been conned into seeing Huckleberry Finn as the "definitive" American novel when it's actually a mess and a moral disaster.
' " This is McCain's greatest triumph: He has conned the media into disbelieving his political calculations and accusing him instead of principle.
(The Colorado abortion vote is a powerful argument against those who say that initiatives are dangerous because they are too crude and voters are too easily conned.
The Anglophobia returns when he buys into hoary theories that America foolishly accepted the "Open Door Policy" in China because the British had conned Secretary of State John Hay.
The LAT off-lead is the confession by long-time Yeltsin advisor, Anatoly Chubais, that Russia "conned" the international community out of nearly $20 billion in loans by hiding the severity of the country's fiscal problems.