flimflam
Example Sentences
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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
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
