How To Use Rip-off In A Sentence
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The lists are shared with fraudsters who run bogus lotteries and timeshare rip-offs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scouting seminars in hotels are a popular rip-off tactic used by bogus agencies.
The Sun
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Don't buy knock-offs - they are rip-offs for everyone concerned - except the guy selling them.
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It was an electronic piano keyboard, a rip-off of the Yamaha instrument that was a big Christmas seller in the States.
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It all adds up to masterfully constructed entertainment that hasn't lost any of its impact over four decades of homages and rip-offs.
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I am certainly one of the biggest critics of the offset market as it is currently constituted, having coined the term rip-offsets.
Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute
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They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.
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Having been through this whole process a bunch of times, I had no illusions that I was dealing with rip-off merchants.
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We chose not to take out an extended warranty when we bought the TV as we reckon these are a rip-off.
The Sun
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Unless there are safeguards in the Bill, there will be asset stripping and property rip-offs on a grand scale.
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In a rip-off of the hit movie Green Card, Billy marries one of his students so he can stay in the country.
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Other rip-offs in the past have centred on everything from gold bullion to currency trading.
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Other rip-offs in the past have centred on everything from gold bullion to currency trading.
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It is amazing that we put up with such blatant rip-offs and someone suggested that we think with our feet and shop around.
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Petty corruption is rife in the country, from backhanders in hospitals to police rip-offs; foreign businessmen rank it as among Asia's most fraud-ridden economies.
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It is a food label sleight-of-hand that Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit advocacy group, calls a "rip-off" for consumers.
Nutrition buzzwords make hay out of grains of truth
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
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But, despite my chagrin at what I regard as a rip-off, I have booked two tickets.
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Note that the boxed stegosaur at far right is a blatant rip-off of this model.
Archive 2006-08-01
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Why do people watch these rip-off artists?
The Sun
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Gary was hesitant to speak much more about identifying the counterfeits or rip-offs.
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A crock of wild-mushroom biryani (sealed with an unimposing pastry crust) worked fine as a side dish but was, frankly, a rip-off as an entrée on the $65 dinner menu.
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He stops in front of the row of Silliscups rip-offs and begins fondling each one, seemingly to judge the sturdiness of the plastic.
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A bailout of GSE bondholders would beperhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history.
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Detectives were today warning people to be on their guard for cowboy tradesmen who may try to rip-off residents in the wake of flooding and gales.
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Someone above mentioned that it was a gaga rip-off, but at least lady gaga is fun?
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I mean,yellow-green piccolo,an emo school boy goku im 95% sure there will be a "i cant do this,i cant beat this guy" "no you can beat him,believe in yourself!" talk in final battle and a lara-croft rip-off bulma…I also make a wild guess that yellow car will take place of the "nimbus
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In a rip-off of the hit movie Green Card, Billy marries one of his students so he can stay in the country.
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The band is the counterpoint to Jet - that is to say, they are a rip-off crew that (kind of) makes it work.
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Last year, 114 cases with 236 victims and more than $ 18 million in estimated rip-offs led to 11 criminal convictions.
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One of the ways of doing that is to end the rip-off charges that simply make their problems worse.
The Sun
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$70 for a T-shirt! What a rip-off!
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In the legal action, Salinger's lawyers accuse the new unauthorised novel of being "a rip-off pure and simple".
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*BUT*seriously acting as though Avatar is in some way superior, is just the blindest thing anybody could ever say, Rip-off storytelling pervades the whole film constantly
George Lucas Addresses the Star Wars Prequel Haters on The Daily Show | /Film
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If he thinks ￡5.40 a day for parking at Luton Airport is a rip-off, he should try Heathrow.
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To that end, an attorney once asked me to ghost-write his John Grisham rip-off.
Archive 2009-06-01
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We could get a coffee in there but they charge two quid a throw which is a real rip-off.
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We could get a coffee in there but they charge two quid a throw which is a real rip-off.
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Trading standards bosses have made tackling the tricksters, who include cowboy tradesmen, rip-off builders and confidence cheats, their number one priority.
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Even colder, whenever veterans balk at paying the usurious rip-off, company lawyers sue them, usually in courts far away from where the vets live.
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We have two buildings by that architect here in town; one is a rip-off of an old Roman temple in France - er, Gaul - and the other is a stupendously bad monolith on Washington Avenue.
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AND poised to discuss the intricacies of the road pricing rip-off.
The Sun
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80p for a cup of coffee? What a rip-off!
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I'm also talking rip-offs, exploitation movies, mindless sequels, trash masquerading as quality.
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One of the ways of doing that is to end the rip-off charges that simply make their problems worse.
The Sun
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Further down the fjord was the Pirate Cave - a bit of a rip-off as there were only models of pirates and no real ones, and then back home, again stopping for the required jumping off the boat swim, that again we both did.
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In my view, and speaking as someone who worked in this industry for over eleven years, payment protection insurance is one of the most grotesque financial rip-offs ever.
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What follows is a farrago of mistaken identities and gender reversals, a painful rip-off of Shakespeare in Love without any of the wit, charm or heart.
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To be even blunter, is the system designed to avoid "rip-offs"?
Social Security in Canadathe Challenge Ahead
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That results in unscrupulous sellers with excellent feedback ratings and in perpetuating their ability to rip-off additional people.
Some eBay Sellers Will Get a Price Break, but Hated Feedback System Stays - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Of course for people who have read Tolkein rip-offs for decades, Mieville is a much needed breath of fresh air.
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We could get a coffee in there but they charge two quid a throw which is a real rip-off.
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Eating out in South-East Asia sounds ridiculously cheap to Australians; making mobile phone calls in Africa appears to be a total rip-off; your cheap US meal is a rort once you tip the surly wait staff.
Don’t Get Ripped Off With Foreign Currency | Lifehacker Australia
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We could get a coffee in there but they charge two quid a throw which is a real rip-off.
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Think about the film at all, and you'll see it for the fourth-rate rip-off it is.
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If he thinks ￡5.40 a day for parking at Luton Airport is a rip-off, he should try Heathrow.
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Likewise, their prescription-drug plan is limited to seniors, and even then it soaks the taxpayers while allowing the drug makers to keep charging rip-off prices.
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If he thinks ￡5.40 a day for parking at Luton Airport is a rip-off, he should try Heathrow.
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This accident, sickness and unemployment cover is a right royal rip-off, as this article reveals!
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Pines contends that he became a victim of mortgage rip-offs and the housing market crash, which led him to investigate what he describes as unethical lending practices.
Latimes.com - News
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Today I've decided to take a look at some of these rip-offs and rorts, and to invite readers to submit their own observations and opinions by way of the forums.
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This column is a blatant rip-off of the column Charlie Vincent, a retired sportswriter from the Detroit Free Press, used to deliver to his readers.
Thanksgiving in July
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They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.
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And then he replied, ‘You're nothing but Eastern scum and a capitalist rip-off son-of-a-bitch.'
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It's far worse; they're simply tacky rip-off merchants with a beady eye for the good earner.
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They seem to forget that the rainbow is a symbol from the Old Testament as a covenant from God that he won't do another flood, and the Christians have also done their share of ritual theft; Holy Communion is a rip-off of the Passover seder.
December 2006
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And they are anxious about dismal public transport, dirty public conveniences, rip-off days out and restaurants that are anti-children.
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It's far worse; they're simply tacky rip-off merchants with a beady eye for the good earner.
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People in York mostly think that estate agents are a rip-off, greedy, corrupt, or that they are cowboys or sharks.
