conmanship

English

Etymology

conman +‎ -ship

Noun

conmanship (uncountable)

1. The role or status of being a conman.
   • 1994 April 5, Orengo, “Ministerial Statements”, in Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 25:

     Conmanship does not arise from the defector. Even those who are pressurising people in the Opposition to defect are involved in acts of political conmanship.

   • 2000, Ishwar Modi, ‎Thottamon Kantan Kesavan Narayanan Unnithan, Human Values and Social Change, page 249:

     Human values like love for all living things, compassion, friendship, camaraderie and pity, regard for truth, abhorrence for all forms of conmanship and brain-washing, repugnance of anything that seeks to take advantage of those that are handicapped socially, economically or politically, etc., have taken a terrible beating in recent times from imperialists and neo-colonialists of the West, who have followed, in the main, three strategies to uphold capitalist market values:

   • 2020, Mookgo S. Kgatle, ‎ Allan H. Anderson, The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism:

     The increasingly dysfunctional socio-economic conditions exacerbated the increase in extreme healing practices and general religious conmanship.