black marketeer
Example Sentences
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Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
Born in 1945 to a Jewish family outside of Paris, Modiano's father was a black marketeer who profited from the Nazi occupation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2014
For Violette Leduc, a black marketeer turned celebrated writer, life is a series of crushing disappointments, from the mother who never took her hand to the friends who never stay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
“In North Korea only the strong survive,” said the onetime black marketeer, a former salesman of used televisions who spent much of his life in Pyongyang but who eventually escaped to South Korea.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2012
But Garrison is an impressive quick-change artist who adroitly assumes his many personae — a butch lesbian aunt, a boorish talk-show host, persecuted black marketeer, a sneering spymaster, et al.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
