flimflam
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flimflam
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Synonyms for flimflam
Synonyms: Noun
artifice, device, dodge, fetch, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile
Synonyms: Verb
beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
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Examples of flimflam in a Sentence
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The report is just a lot of corporate flimflam. giving the new guy at work her cell phone numberāāin case of an emergencyāāwas just a flimflam to pique his romantic interestVerb
everyone likes to think that they're too smart to be flimflammed by anyone
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The far-reaching, proposed climate legislation championed by liberal lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, and derided by Trump as economic flimflam, aims to tackle climate change. — Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, "2020 Democrats: Climate change comes off the backburner as White House hopefuls take on President Trump," 5 Sep. 2019 Votersā civic duty lies in applying their best judgment to separate the fact from the flimflam. — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, "A āNo Dealā Brexit Can Save the European Union," 17 Jan. 2019 Once the flimflam is removed, stocks and bonds are telling a consistent story of a slower but still-growing economy. — James Mackintosh, WSJ, "Stocks and Bonds Share a Story: Donāt Bet on a Boom," 30 Aug. 2018 Patients and taxpayers incur the financial costs of this flimflam, and patients suffer further by losing access to local health providers. — WSJ, "CVS Exploits PBM Role, and Taxpayers Pay," 25 June 2018 Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and Syracuse, to name several recent examples, have run their own bold experiments in curricular flimflam. — Jay M. Smith, WSJ, "How Sports Ate Academic Freedom," 30 Apr. 2018 But a lot of his showmanship is pure flimflam, meant to dazzle his audience. — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, "Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries," 2 Mar. 2018 The 1988 flimflam classic Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which Michael Caineās gentleman con artist separates American tourists from their riches, was filmed in one of its inlets, Beaulieu-sur-Mer. — Liam Vaughan, Bloomberg.com, "He Stole $100 Million From His Clients. Now Heās Living in Luxury on the CĆ“te dāAzur," 18 Dec. 2017 The easy, if negative, response is that Unbuilt Detroit represents the flimflam of real estate development, where billion-dollar visions have little or nothing behind them but pretty pictures. — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, "Soccer stadium vision falls into Unbuilt Detroit archive but don't mourn the loss," 3 Nov. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'flimflam.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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