Verb (used with object) : A fortuneteller flimflammed her out of her savings. From Dictionary.com.
He threw around the word "flimflam," as in Ryan is "serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce.". From Wordnik.com. [The Patriot Post] Reference
Take your flimflam boogeyman, turn him upside down. From Wordnik.com. [Mad] Reference
Field, don't allow Mike to flimflam and bully you. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But all this flimflam wasn't Jessica Lynch's doing. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
But Indonesian courts have seen through the flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Newmont's Vindication] Reference
All have been integrally involved in election flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy, coincidence, or skullduggery?] Reference
Also the local gas station is a haven for flimflam gas scams. From Wordnik.com. [Calakmul] Reference
"Every other person was a flimflam person," Kanokogi remembered. From Wordnik.com. [We Remember - Rusty Kanokogi, 1935 - 2009] Reference
If you want to criticise, concentrate on that instead of flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Things Can Only Get... Or Lest We Forget] Reference
Does she really think she can get away with such blatant flimflam?. From Wordnik.com. [Carter: It Would Be A "Very Serious Mistake" For Super-Delegates To Overturn The Primaries] Reference
Who, in that other snappy expression of Hexter's, is producing flimflam?. From Wordnik.com. [Letting Go] Reference
But it's been obscured by a lot of conservative flimflam over CBO scores. From Wordnik.com. [Towards a better health-care debate?] Reference
Am I crazy or is that a flimflam excuse to justify a purported sound change?. From Wordnik.com. [The f to h sound change in Etruscan] Reference
Underneath all the flimflam, that also seems to be what they intend to do now. From Wordnik.com. [NHS bans on operations gamble with patients' health, senior surgeon warns] Reference
But bullshitting the public about one's false accomplishments is pure flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Post Looks At Hillary's Schedules And Foreign-Policy Claims] Reference
Underneath all the flimflam, that also seems to be what they intend to do now.''. From Wordnik.com. [NHS bans on operations gamble with patients' health, senior surgeon warns] Reference
Under the right circumstances, I'm more than willing to try to flimflam a doorman. From Wordnik.com. [The Burglar On The Prowl]
Small-time grifters and flimflam men wheedling favors and skimming money off the top. From Wordnik.com. [April 2006] Reference
Our nanosecond attention spans make us easy prey to flimflam, political or corporate. From Wordnik.com. [Mort Rosenblum: American In Worldland: Have-It-Your-Way Truth] Reference
And, of course, barring them is exactly what I intend to do so I am trying to flimflam her. From Wordnik.com. [Banquets of the Black Widowers]
No more need we dread the exposure of a beloved public figure as an adulterous flimflam artist. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
They're being fleeced by a finance Ponzi scheme, sheer flimflam, and here's how from what we know. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Latest No Banker Left Behind Scheme] Reference
Pasquarelli is letting his firm be used to gussy up a degraded project with architectural flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantic Yards Firm Works Fast, Suffers Yet Another Animal Metaphor] Reference
Eventually, Ozma even allows him to learn a bit of “real magic” to supplement his usual flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Road] Reference
And if I have given the flimflam artist, Barack Obama, some success with this, I am deeply apologetic. From Wordnik.com. [Eagleburger Backpedals Over Palin Remark - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Just exactly the kind of jerk who'd get taken in by an operation that was founded by a flimflam artist. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Water]
That's why ObamaCare now cannot be enacted without a combination of partisan bullying and procedural flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Why I'm Not Running for the Senate] Reference
To get an even better understanding of this low-brained flimflam consider the utilization of infant mortality. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Best Line of the Week] Reference
This was partly flimflam: high tech largely drives the economy, and there's not much of it in distressed areas. From Wordnik.com. [Trade Mission To Misery, Usa] Reference
Just one teency reference to getting a cup of joe at Starbucks, or reading some flimflam dentist office magazine. From Wordnik.com. [Highlights of last night's Sarah Palin speech.] Reference
There is a great deal of literary flimflam and quirk in this one, which I find both irritating and peversely attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Told from the POV of his new apprentice, Bary, a half-haint boy who recently achieved corporeality to learn the flimflam trade. From Wordnik.com. [SSF update] Reference
In his remarks Tuesday, the new governor also referenced Enron, once No. 7 in the S&P 500, and now a synonym for fiscal flimflam. From Wordnik.com. [Henry J. Stern: Inconvenient Truths] Reference
Gamblers, pickpockets, flimflam men, and the girls themselves preyed on soldiers in gray as readily as they had on soldiers in blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
One fan of the president's praised him as a man of "good old-fashioned morals" who "does not try to flimflam the press or the voters.". From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Debating The Merits Of George W. Bush] Reference
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