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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
flam .
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Examples
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Mostly though, it is good for Conservative voters to see that they have been flim-flammed by con-artists in thousand dollar suits.
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I was faked in my birth and flim-flammed with my mother's milk.
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You've been snowed, flim flammed from an early age and refuse to acknowledge it.
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A while ago that O'Reilly fellow said he was, but I got flim-flammed!
Obama Ad In Pennsylvania: He Doesn't Take Money From "Oil Company PACs Or Lobbyists" 2009
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I have, as well, and have wondered whether the persistent portrayal of Obama as being left of even Clinton has flim-flammed people.
Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have A Mandate" 2009
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For the past two decades, Western governments have been confounded, hoodwinked, bambozzled, bluffed, duped, manipulated, seduced, beguiled, flim-flammed and sandbagged by a master of deception into believing that there is "no alternative in the opposition".
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Enforcement of these rules is usually left to the universities employing the researchers, which are apparently easily flim flammed by the researchers involved.
Doctors, drugs and money | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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I have a thick skin from that experience, I still remember the first time I got flammed and thought I could never turn the computer on again.
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Nah, it just means that Obama will have flim-flammed the rubes with a bait-and-switch, promising a nebulous "hope" and "change" while preparing something a bit more radical.
If we're all supposed to see that Obama is a socialist, and then he wins by a landslide... Ann Althouse 2008
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I was afraid we were about to be flim-flammed again, as has happened so many times with the Rove Machine, and that the easily-distracted American public would get mesmerized yet again by smooth talk and fairy dust while a Democratic candidate ten times better qualified would go down in defeat AGAIN.
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