Estos votos piadosos en tiempos de desempleo y precariedad social sobre un fondo de inestabilidad internacional hacen aparecer la RSE como un gran camelo.

These pious hopes in times of unemployment and social precarity against a backdrop of international instability make CSR seem like a huge con.

camelo(also: falsedad, maraña, mentira, embuste)

lie {noun}

camelo(also: engaño, estafa)

sell {noun} [Brit.] [coll.] (deception)

camelar [camelando · camelado] {verb}

camelar

to cajole [cajoled · cajoled] {v.t.}

camelar(also: embaucar, engatusar)

to con [conned · conned] {v.t.} [coll.] (sweet-talk)

Estos votos piadosos en tiempos de desempleo y precariedad social sobre un fondo de inestabilidad internacional hacen aparecer la RSE como un gran camelo.

These pious hopes in times of unemployment and social precarity against a backdrop of international instability make CSR seem like a huge con.

Todo esto es para camelar al público británico para que crea que el Tratado de Reforma es en realidad materialmente diferente de la Constitución rechazada, cuando está claro que no lo es.

All this is to con the British public into believing that the Reform Treaty is actually materially different from the rejected Constitution, when patently it is not.

camelar(also: engañar, embaucar)

to humbug [humbugged · humbugged] {v.t.}

camelar(also: convencer)

to snow [snowed · snowed] {v.t.} (persuade)

camelar(also: engatusar)

to sweet-talk {v.t.} [coll.]

camelar a algn para que + subj

to sweet-talk sb into -ing

camelar [camelando · camelado] {transitive verb}

camelar(also: flirtear, coquetear, hacer ojitos, ligar)

to flirt [flirted · flirted] {vb}

camelar(also: investigar)

to look into {vb}

SYNONYMS

Synonyms (Spanish) for "camelo":

camelo

befa- bola- broma- bufonada- bulo- burla- cachondeo- candonga- caraba- carnavalada- chacota- chanza- chirigota- chiste- chufla

CONTEXT EXAMPLES

Context examples for "camelo" in English(!) These sentences come from external sources & may not be accurate. Therefore, we are not responsible for their content.

cameló al abuelo para que le diese dinero

she sweet-talked her grandfather into giving her some money

cameló al abuelo para que le diese dinero

she wheedled some money out of her grandfather

eso que te ha contado es puro camelo

what he's told you is a load of bull

eso que te ha contado es puro camelo

what he's told you is a pack of lies

lo cameló para que le diera el dinero

she wheedled the money out of him

me cameló para que lo acompañara

she wheedled me into going with her

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