flimflam

Example Sentences

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When the then-president tried to flimflam him with misleading statistics at one point, Swan replied with precision, detail and follow-up.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2023

Another strand connects to the country's long history of snake oil salesmen, flimflam artists and con men.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2022

You can no longer flimflam an aura of general righteousness.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 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