flimflam

Example Sentences

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He's almost certainly lying about that, of course, but this rhetorical flimflam is still quite revealing.

From Salon

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

“They were dying off,” Whitehead writes, “the old crooks and hustlers and flimflam artists, or upstate after an ill-advised scheme to cover medical bills or six months’ back pay or new teeth.”

From Los Angeles Times

That experience has made him allergic to both audience participation and flimflam, so they had decided on a format that was closer to an interview.

From New York Times

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

From Salon