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

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

Her father was a con man, black marketeer and philanderer who deserted the family temporarily when Jenny was 6 — leading her mother to suffer a mental breakdown — and permanently when she was 11.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2016

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

“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