black marketeer
Example Sentences
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But he had plenty of good to say about the villainous, “picture-making performance” of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the extremely dangerous black marketeer Owen Davian.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023
Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2022
To follow the money within the Islamic State, Mr. Cohen must track the group’s oil sales from black marketeer to black marketeer until the cash finally ends up traceable in a bank or financial institution.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2014
“The weak perish in Gone With the Wind,” said the former black marketeer.
From Time • Oct. 25, 2012
But Garrison is an impressive quick-change artist who adroitly assumes his many personae — a butch lesbian aunt, a boorish talk-show host, persecuted black marketeer, a sneering spymaster, et al.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2012
