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- noun A
swindler ; acon artist .
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Examples
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Smith first distinguished himself as an affable and talented charismatic flimflammer who began his mystical journey in black magic and crystal gazing artifice handed down from his dad; this early introduction into shamanism was enhanced by neighbor girl, Sally Chase, whose own magical rock, when dropped in a hat, led Smith to a buried “peep stone” providing him with special powers of divination.
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It just so happens that our own Eliot Brown sat down with the accused flimflammer in an interview published today.
Atlantic Yards Firm Works Fast, Suffers Yet Another Animal Metaphor 2009
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Monahaka don't want to go to trial because he knows I'll show him up for the Oriental flimflammer that he is.
By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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After all, just because you've got the spare bedroom ready doesn't mean you have to open the door to some greasy flimflammer who happens to know your cousin.
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University in Chicago, has been called a political gadfly, an urbanologist, a "nice guy," a political operative, a "man of great enthusiasm," a flimflammer, an influence peddler, an
Chicago Reader 2010
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… Carrey's chameleonlike gyrations and falsifications as a flimflammer are deliciously funny.
Queerty 2009
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