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

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

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