How to Use flimflam in a Sentence

flimflam

noun
  • The report is just a lot of corporate flimflam.
  • That’s where Gary, with his flimflam charisma, comes in.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • There’s always seemed to be a bit of flimflam behind that gigglemug of his.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But a lot of his showmanship is pure flimflam, meant to dazzle his audience.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Marty Supreme is a movie about a charismatic flimflam man, and so its press tour has been full of flim and also flam.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • That Castaneda’s books were largely flimflam isn’t in dispute.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • Voters’ civic duty lies in applying their best judgment to separate the fact from the flimflam.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Amid all the fakery and flimflam of the pre-regulated drug market, the Shaker brand was the best.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
  • Once the flimflam is removed, stocks and bonds are telling a consistent story of a slower but still-growing economy.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Zirin does not get lost in the clouds of flimflam that have spewed out of Trump for decades, which other biographers have taken as their mission to prove or disprove.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Patients and taxpayers incur the financial costs of this flimflam, and patients suffer further by losing access to local health providers.
    — WSJ, 25 June 2018
  • Not in crushing debt, but in rejecting American culture’s pervasive backward slide into premodern flimflam.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The telltale sign of political flimflam is a promise to deliver all the benefits associated with a particular policy without any of the costs.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Less deadly, but no less damaging, justice is seen as partial and those who govern us from both sides of the aisle are seen as flimflam men, lining their own pockets while increasingly large numbers of the vulnerable struggle to survive.
    — Michael Auslin, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The easy, if negative, response is that Unbuilt Detroit represents the flimflam of real estate development, where billion-dollar visions have little or nothing behind them but pretty pictures.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and Syracuse, to name several recent examples, have run their own bold experiments in curricular flimflam.
    — Jay M. Smith, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018

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