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- noun
nonsense - noun a
deception orswindle
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Examples
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Ill intentions, flimflammery, and greed had no role in the process.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Moreover, as Charles Krauthammer argues, CBO's figures on ObamaCare are based on false premises topped off with accounting "flimflammery."
ObamaCare for less Jennifer Rubin 2011
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Ill intentions, flimflammery, and greed had no role in the process.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Mexico's history contains its share of such flimflammery in rude and violent acts.
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They followed with some odd flimflammery, as the Post reports: The commission leaders said that, at present, federal revenue is fully consumed by three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Scammed: What Shirley Sherrod and Social Security Have in Common 2010
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And this flimflammery is all because Republican leaders understand that after their two years blocking the Will of the People, after John Boehner saying "We will not compromise our principles," after trying to convince people that the Republican Party is now in charge -- they know that they now have to put up or shut up.
Robert J. Elisberg: Where There's a Will, There's Away Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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Mexico's history contains its share of such flimflammery in rude and violent acts.
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And this flimflammery is all because Republican leaders understand that after their two years blocking the Will of the People, after John Boehner saying "We will not compromise our principles," after trying to convince people that the Republican Party is now in charge -- they know that they now have to put up or shut up.
Robert J. Elisberg: Where There's a Will, There's Away Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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And thus came all the later linguistic flimflammery.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009
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Paul Krugman in the NYT sees nothing but flimflammery, and I tend to agree with him.
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