flimflam
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He has spent the past two years framing his former partner as “Scam Altman”—something of an AI-era flimflam man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
He's almost certainly lying about that, of course, but this rhetorical flimflam is still quite revealing.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2023
“They were dying off,” Whitehead writes, “the old crooks and hustlers and flimflam artists, or upstate after an ill-advised scheme to cover medical bills or six months’ back pay or new teeth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
His delivery is so engaged with Eddie’s flimflam and high jinx, it is almost impossible to believe that he — or at least his voice — was not a player.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
He just as quick snatched it away and said, “I told you you were going to watch this. You can learn about how a flimflam works.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
A stockbroker later admitted he’d flimflammed the producers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few years later, he flimflammed an American firm that sought to print banknotes for the Chinese.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Cleveland this June, he flimflammed red-bearded, righthanded Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, 4-5 with the Indians to that point, 16-1 with the Cubs since then.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was not going to be "flimflammed," no, sir!
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Horace Annesley Vachell
As I said, flimflamming people to give them money is bad, but that’s not necessarily criminal.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Fancy language, senator. I will duel you at dawn you charlatan, you mountebank, you mendacious flimflamming dissembler. Bring a pistol and a thesaurus,” he quipped.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2017
Sondheim has been fascinated by the Mizners since he read about Addison, an architect, and his flimflamming brother Wilson in the New Yorker back in the 1950s.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2016
At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation.
From Time Magazine Archive
