carny
3
9.2
- noun
- /ˈkɑrni/
- Offensive
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- Everyone warned me to be careful around that carny, who had a reputation for scamming tourists.
- a carny hustler
Examples
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Surely there should have been more merriment in a religion created by a scheming and scamming carny huckster.
Blog text (12) -
The man was known as a carny because he always tricked people at the carnival games.
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There'd be a carny on the street bringing people down.
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And a bunch of carny show fortune tellers and insurance fraud specialists?
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You are a carny.
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Hey, you know our only relationship problem is that you're running a dollar, ninety-nine a minute carny scam out of my living room.
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He's just a carny.
Fiction book (1992) -
Carnies, gypsies, conmen, you name it.
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After losing money at the fair, I realized the carny had been cheating me all along.
Synonyms
153
3.9
A dishonest person who cheats or steals
112
2.6
A person who breaks the rules or lies to get an advantage
55
2.6
A person who acts dishonestly to gain an unfair advantage
47
4.7
A person who tricks people by gaining their trust to get their money
40
4.8
A person who tricks people by gaining their trust to take their money or valuables
20
6.0
A person who lies to or cheats others, often to have fun
15
5.4
A person who tricks people to take their money
13
7.9
A person who tricks others to take their money or things
5
8.1
A person who pretends to be friendly but secretly harms or tricks you
1
9.9
A person who cheats or tricks others to get money
1
7.9
A person who gets money by lying to or tricking people
1
9.9
A person who cheats others to get money or things
1
7.8
A person who tricks or cheats people, often as a joke
A person who tricks people to get their money or things
A person who cheats others with tricks or fake deals
A person who cheats others to get small amounts of money
A person who tricks others using clever talk to take their money
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
carny = carnival (semi-transparent) = carn + y
Morphologically derived from 'carnival' but the sense 'swindler' is a slang extension referring to shady carnival practices and is not a literal denotation of the base.
Etymology
Carny as a noun comes from carnival, a traveling fair where some people ran tricky games. Because of that history, carny can mean 'a person who cheats' or a swindler.