Con artist
Con artist noun - A swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim.
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Devil and con artist are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Devil" instead a noun phrase "Con artist".
Devil
Devil noun - An evil spirit.
Con artist and devil are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Con artist" instead a noun "Devil".
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The season 4 episode "Devil's Due" has the crew trying to discredit a technological con artist who claims to be the devil of not only the planet of the week, but every planet.
Source: Clarke's Third Law - Star Trek: The Next Generation had Ardra, a local planet's version of the devil who arrived to assume total control over the populace and was soon revealed to just be a con artist with "A bad copy" of a Romulan cloaking device whose "powers" came from her undetected ship.
Source: Feet of Clay -
In the Next Generation episode "Devil's Due" a con artist used holograms, transporters, and tractor beams to try and fool a planet into believing she was their version of the devil, here to collect on a thousand-year-old deal.
Source: Master of Illusion
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