flimflam

How To Use flimflam In A Sentence

• It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for ‘miracle’ fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money.
• Some of the best and the brightest are giving up, rejecting businesses based on flimflams and deceptive marketing. Danny Schechter: Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis
• And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms.
• There will be no way to add a dollar to the profit margin by flimflamming employees. Proposals to Save America, Part III
• Instead, we get the flimflam of the weasel words that are scattered through this legislation about environmental sustainability and economic benefits.
• Be careful, New York is full of slick flimflam men.
• Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars.
• His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children.
• I note that book publishing itself is becoming much more honest, truthful, unimpeachable, authentic, and precise about everything from numbers of books sold to the unvarnished, unexaggerated, unerring, and unaffected stories it tells as all who toil and sweat in this scrupulous business strive as best we can to maintain the veracious sheen-of-sham and hocus pocus so inherently attached like Superglue to our equivocated reputations for flimflam and fiddle-dee-dee. Obscure Books, Part II - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
• I was sick of his intellectual flimflam.