black marketeer
Example Sentences
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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
Her father was a con man, black marketeer and philanderer who deserted the family temporarily when Jenny was 6 — leading her mother to suffer a mental breakdown — and permanently when she was 11.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2016
Born in 1945 to a Jewish family outside of Paris, Modiano's father was a black marketeer who profited from the Nazi occupation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 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
