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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.
(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.
' " This is McCain's greatest triumph: He has conned the media into disbelieving his political calculations and accusing him instead of principle.
It was a pretty dismaying experience, straight out of Les Misérables : the tattered crowd, the forest of groping hands, the healthy-looking young guys who conned their way to seconds or thirds while the quiet or confused went home empty-handed.
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.