CON GAME vs STING: NOUN
- A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.
- Same as confidence game.
- A confidence game.
- Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental
- A goad; incitement.
- A confidence game, especially one implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals.
- A keen stimulus or incitement; a goad or spur.
- A hurtful quality or power.
- A sharp, piercing organ or part, often ejecting a venomous secretion, as the modified ovipositor of a bee or wasp or the spine of certain fishes.
- The wound or pain caused by stinging.
- The act of stinging.
- A mental pain or distress
- A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
- A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- A stimulus, irritation, or incitement; a nettling or goading; an impulse.
- Mental pain inflicted, as by a biting or cutting remark or sarcasm; hence, the point of an epigram.
- Anything, or that in anything, which gives acute pain, or constitutes the principal pain; also, anything which goads to action: as, the sting of hunger; the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
- The operation or effect of a sting; the act of stinging; the usually poisoned punctured wound made by a sting; also, the pain or smart of such a wound.
- The fine taper of a dog's tail.
- In botany, a sort of sharp-pointed hollow hair, seated upon or connected with a gland which secretes an acrid or poisonous fluid, which, when introduced under the skin, produces a stinging pain. For plants armed with such stings, see cowhage, nettle (with cut), nettle-tree, 2, and tread-softly.
- An urticating organ, or such organs collectively, of the jellyfishes, sea-nettles, or other cœlenterates. See cut under nematocyst.
- A fin-spine of some fishes, capable of wounding. In a few cases such spines are connected with a venom-gland whence poison is injected; in others, as the tail-spines of sting-rays, the large bony sting, several inches long and sometimes jagged, is smeared with a substance which may cause a wound to fester. See cuts under stone-cat, sting-ray.
- The poison-fang or venom-tooth of a nocuous serpent; also, in popular misapprehension, the harmless soft forked tongue of any serpent. See cuts under Crotalus and snake.
- One of the feet or claws of centipede, which, in the case of some of the larger kinds, of tropical countries, inflict painful and dangerous wounds.
- The curved or claw-like telson of the tail of a scorpion, inflicting a serious poisoned wound. See cuts under scorpion and Scorpionida.
- The falces of spiders, with which these creatures bite—in some cases, as of the katipo or malmignatte, inflicting a very serious or even fatal wound. See cuts under chelicera and falx.
- A stinging hair or spine of the larvæ of various moths, or such organs collectively. See cuts under hag-moth, saddleback, and stinging.
- The mouth-parts of various insects which are formed for piercing and sucking, as in the mosquito and other gnats or midges, gadflies, fleas, bedbugs, etc. In these cases the wound is often poisoned. See cuts under gnat and mosquito.
- In zoology, specifically— The modified ovipositor of the females of certain insects, as bees, wasps, hornets, and many other Hymenoptera; an aculeus; a terebra. This weapon is generally so constructed as to inflict a poisoned as well as punctured wound, which may become inflamed and very painful or even dangerous; an irritating fluid is injected through the tubular sting when the thrust is given. See cut under Hymenoptera.
- A sharp-pointed organ of certain insects and other animals, capable of inflicting by puncture a painful wound.
- The mast of a vessel.
- An instrument for thatching.
- A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
- The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of scorpion.
- A pike; a spear.
- A pole.
CON GAME vs STING: VERB
- N/A
- Deliver a sting to
- Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- Cause a stinging pain
- Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
CON GAME vs STING: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
- To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain.
- To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings.
- To spur on or stimulate by sharp irritation.
- To cheat or overcharge.
- To have, use, or wound with a sharp-pointed structure or organ.
- To cause a sharp, smarting pain.
CON GAME vs STING: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To pain acutely; ; to bite.
- To pierce or wound with a sting
- To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
CON GAME vs STING: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- To pierce; prick; puncture.
- To impale.
- To prick severely; give acute pain to by piercing with a sharp point; especially, to pierce and wound with any sharp-pointed weapon supplied with acrid or poisonous fluid, as a fang or sting, with which certain animals and plants are furnished; bite; urticate: as, to be stung by a bee, a scorpion, or a nettle, or by a serpent or a sea-nettle.
- To pain acutely, as if with a sting; goad: as, a conscience stung with remorse.
- To stimulate; goad.
- To have a sting; be capable of wounding with a sting; use the sting: literally or figuratively: as, hornets sting; epigrams often sting; a stinging blow.
- To give pain or smart; be sharply painful; smart: as, the wound stung for an hour.
- To ‘stick’ for a dinner, a railway fare, or the like.
- A kind of pain
- Operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
CON GAME vs STING: RELATED WORDS
- Swindle, Scam, Con artist, Flimflammer, Confidence trick, Confidence game, Bunco game, Bunko game, Sting, Gyp, Hustle, Bunko, Bunco, Flimflam, Con
- Con game, Bunco game, Bunco, Hustle, Gyp, Stick, Bunko, Burn, Flimflam, Con, Pang, Insect bite, Prick, Twinge, Bite
CON GAME vs STING: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Fraudster, Grift, Fraudful, Supercherie, Swindlery, Conman, Con man, Swindle, Scam, Con artist, Flimflammer, Confidence trick, Confidence game, Sting, Con
- Operation, Stinger, Hoax, Swindle, Racket, Pain, Scam, Confidence game, Stick, Burn, Con, Pang, Insect bite, Twinge, Bite
CON GAME vs STING: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Yes, this was a con game with the people that was there and knew how to bend the rules and lie to do it.
- The movie make the case that it was a con game almost from the start, much to the tune of a Mamet script.
- Steam is that age old Con game of making someone think they need something when they dont then making them pay for it.
- Racca added that, as Parillo worked his almost gymnastic con game, he often left Moon alone, sometimes for as much as an hour.
- Two elderly men are staring down the loss of their life savings in what prosecutors say was an epic con game.
- Bait and switch is a cute term that refers to a nasty con game.
- The Almighty is made the rhetorical shill in a socioeconomic con game.
- There was no upsell or con game at all and I truly appreciate the job they did.
- Any resistance to her never ending con game and I could easily be a goner.
- Most educated folk are prone to honesty, and not in the con game.
- That choice came with its price: the sting of defeat, and even dishonor, a sting my father salves with bravado predictions.
- There were small sting rays and large sting rays.
- Sting being Sting, he returns on his own terms to the punchy, accessible music he has avoided of late.
- Although the Northern Scorpion can deliver a painful sting to its human victim, the sting is not fatal.
- Since then others have felt the same sting and I have shared that sting with them.
- Copaiba on the sting and in a small circle around the sting.
- Centipedes seldom bite humans and if they do, their sting is no worse than a bee sting.
- Hornet can sting multiple times and deliver more venom with each sting.
- Abyss faced Sting at the event, and defeated Sting by disqualification.
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CON GAME vs STING: QUESTIONS
- What is the endless chain (World's greatest con game)?
- What is the treatment for insect sting anaphylaxis?
- What are the clinical studies using Sting agonists?
- Does radiation enhance STING dependent signaling in HNSCC?
- What happened between Sting and Vader after Starrcade?
- Is the Sting-Shaggy collaboration really reggae lite?
- Did Sting win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship?
- Does Sting signaling in Cancer Support dichotomous functions?
- Does Sting Energy Drink have artificial sweeteners?
- Why does Merthiolate sting more than Mercurochrome?
- Why was the Corvette Sting Ray called the Sting Ray?