flimflam

Example Sentences

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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

You can no longer flimflam an aura of general righteousness.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 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