flimflammer

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The vast plain of Los Angeles has had a census book’s worth of high-reward, high-risk chance-takers, visionaries and flimflammers, all plowing their renegade furrows in the land that was never theirs for the taking.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Steven Seagal comes across as a buffoon, director Baz Luhrmann as an oddball, and the network executives who killed Leguizamo's TV series "House of Buggin'" as cynical flimflammers.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2011

Two-timing flimflammers aren’t commonly heroes on network dramas, but cable television keeps upping the ante for antiheroes.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2010

New York, I knew, was full of high-class international crooks and flimflammers who had flocked there because the great field of their operations in Europe was closed.

From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

The skin-game artists and shilabers, cheaters, flimflammers, and medicine men flock to these gatherings as flies to a picnic.

From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by Harney, George S.