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  • noun Plural form of flimflammer.

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Examples

  • Stanford did the cha-cha with a clutch of shady Caribbean con men, pols, and flimflammers.

    Bill Katovsky: Sanford vs. Stanford: Which One is the Philander and Which One is the Swindler? 2009

  • We expected that one or two of the ministers besides Marjoe might turn out to be crooked, but to our surprise all four were conspicuous flimflammers.

    Sarah Kernochan: Sympathy for the Evangelicals 2008

  • The skin-game artists and shilabers, cheaters, flimflammers, and medicine men flock to these gatherings as flies to a picnic.

    David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

  • New York, I knew, was full of high-class international crooks and flimflammers who had flocked there because the great field of their operations in Europe was closed.

    The Treasure-Train 1908

  • Slick lobbyists and flimflammers did not make it that way.

    Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories 2010

  • This week, IT types got to pick through Apple's new servers, music fans got to pay less -- or sometimes more -- for a fix, and flimflammers may be trying to lure app developers into a scheme to wring cash from cracked iTunes gift cards.

    E-Commerce Times 2009

  • Bernanke's job is to step in and put an end to the hanky-panky, not add to the problems by restoring a credit-generating regime that transferred hundreds of billions of dollars from ordinary hard-working people to fat cat banksters and Wall Street flimflammers.

    Dissident Voice 2009

  • Her "profes", master "mapaches" (raccoons or electoral flimflammers) sabotaged voting booths all over the country, stuffing ballot boxes and altering tally sheets when they favored the frontrunner Lopez Obrador.

    Organic Consumers Association News Headlines 2008

  • Her "profes", master "mapaches" (raccoons or electoral flimflammers) sabotaged voting booths all over the country, stuffing ballot boxes and altering tally sheets when they favored the frontrunner Lopez Obrador.

    CounterPunch 2008

  • I’m posting this in hopes that it’ll be spammed by the spivs, and this time I’ll let the links stand, because if you’re reading this because you followed a link from one of those fraudulent, deceptive, double-dealing swindlers; or you see a link below from one of those scam artists, flimflammers, or snake oil salesmen, then you’re duly warned: caveat emptor.

    Australia is a shit-hole for flakey fuckwits « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

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