black marketeer
Example Sentences
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But he had plenty of good to say about the villainous, “picture-making performance” of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the extremely dangerous black marketeer Owen Davian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
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
Already Turkey has the makings of a bomb program: uranium deposits and research reactors — and mysterious ties to the nuclear world’s most famous black marketeer, Abdul Qadeer Khan of Pakistan.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2019
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
“The weak perish in Gone With the Wind,” said the former black marketeer.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2012
