flimflam

Example Sentences

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“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

That experience has made him allergic to both audience participation and flimflam, so they had decided on a format that was closer to an interview.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 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

Don't get this wrong – Odenkirk is at his funniest when Saul Goodman turns on his fast-talking flimflam.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2022

My blood ran cold thinking ’bout how this boy thought this was all a flimflam, and now he’d gone and let this horrible-looking man snatch ahold of his soul!

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis