ripoff

Example Sentences

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The film can’t shake its lingering scent of “Stranger Things,” but the filmmakers have also turned for inspiration to another iconic ’80s-set property: The whole movie is a “Nightmare on Elm Street” ripoff, with a disfigured killer stalking his prey through their subconscious.

From Los Angeles Times

At every turn, he's relied heavily on technologies developed because of the very federal largess he now deems a "ripoff."

From Salon

To defend this, Musk claims it's a "ripoff" when grant funding goes to pay for salaries, lab space and equipment, even though no one can conduct scientific research without these baseline necessities.

From Salon

"Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in endowments were siphoning off 60% of research award money for 'overhead'?" Musk wrote on X. "What a ripoff!"

From BBC

He called the paper a shill for the "tariff lobby" and "always wrong" before saying that two of our biggest trade partners had been engaging in a "decades-long ripoff of America" prior to the tariffs he ordered on Saturday.

From Salon