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

There had been a few flimflam sales, searches for phantom titles, earnest-money payments to cabin squatters.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022

As the focus of the story shifts to their dangerous flimflam, “Nightmare Alley” loses a bit of steam.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021

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