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flimflam
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flimflam noun a pack of lies, artifice, befooling, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery, empty talk, enmeshment, ensnarement, fallaciousness, falseness, falsity, fiction, fooling, fraud, illusion, legal fiction, mirage, pretense, prevarication, trickery, trumped-up story, willful misconception
Associated concepts: bunco, confidence games, fraud
See also: bunko, falsification, ruse


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At my age, I have been scammed and flimflammed by the best of them, but the firm paid by Waste Management to compile the Bradley Landfill EIR is real good.
The national interest," "the domino theory," "national honor"--for eight more excruciating years, we were flimflammed and hoodwinked and harangued and preachified--but nobody could ever explain with any credibility why we were fighting a war in Vietnam.
Based on actual events, the drama has Cheryl playing a woman who flimflammed her way into the society of a town - then killed her husband.
 
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