cons
Negatives on lists
Cons are disadvantages or arguments against something, typically weighed against pros: Let's consider the pros and cons before deciding.
A con is also a swindle or confidence trick, and to con someone is to deceive them for gain: He conned her out of her savings.
A con is also informal for a convict: an ex-con.
In programming, cons is a function that constructs data structures.
Unfavorable conditions or factors
- downsidesNegative consequences or aspects
- negativesUnfavorable aspects or refusals
- shortcomingsInadequacies or weak points
- limitationsImposed or inherent bounds
detriments · pitfalls · liabilities · weaknesses · flaws · deficiencies · faults · defects
Imprisoned felons
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- felonsSerious crime offenders
- offendersThose who commit wrongs
jailbirds · recidivists · lifers · parolees · detainees · escapees · chain gang · cellmates
Deceptive theft schemes
- fraudsDeceptive acts or impostors
- hustlesMoves quickly, or swindles
- griftsCommits petty swindles
- schemesCrafty organized plans
ripoffs · deceptions · tricks · rackets · flimflams · shell games · Ponzi schemes · marks
Measuring mass or heft
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- analysisMethodical study of parts
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
comparison · judgment · review · reflection · calculation · appraisal · reasoning · decision-making
disadvantages
Unfavorable conditions or factors
- downsidesNegative consequences or aspects
- negativesUnfavorable aspects or refusals
- shortcomingsInadequacies or weak points
limitations · detriments · pitfalls · liabilities · weaknesses · flaws · deficiencies · faults · defects · hindrances
convicts
Imprisoned felons
offenders · jailbirds · recidivists · lifers · parolees · detainees · escapees · chain gang · cellmates · lawbreakers
swindles
Deceptive theft schemes
schemes · ripoffs · deceptions · tricks · rackets · flimflams · shell games · Ponzi schemes · marks · suckers
weighing
Measuring mass or heft
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- analysisMethodical study of parts
assessment · comparison · judgment · review · reflection · calculation · appraisal · reasoning · decision-making · tradeoff
- Comparison Termssimilarities, differences, comparisons, contrasts, pros
- pros and conspros, advantage, disadvantage, pluses, minuses
- reviewsreview, reviews, rating, ratings, critic
- tradeoffstradeoff, compromise, cost-benefit, risk-reward, give-and-take
- scamsscam, scams, fraud, frauds, swindle
- schemesschemes, scheme, plots, plot, conspiracies
conspros
Advantages or experts
advantages · benefits · positives · upsides · pluses
consmarks
Visible signs or grades
victims · suckers · dupes · straight arrows · civilians
conshonesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
truthfulness · fair dealing · sincerity · integrity · forthrightness
- pros and consFavorable and unfavorable points
- con manFraud through false trust
- con artistProfessional fraud perpetrator
- confidence trickFraud exploiting victim's trust
- confidence gameFraud using false trust
- internet connection
con, confidence, connection, confident, conviction, convince, convict, convincing, disconnect