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What is the noun for flimflammers?

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flimflammery
  1. nonsense
  2. a deception or swindle
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    1. “Despite the flamboyant flimflammery of the salesman, discerning customers saw through his deceitful tricks and refused to fall for his charlatanism.”
      “Are you trying to say, Justin, that these blessed people are using trickery, skullduggery, flimflammery, shams, pretence, to ply their trade?”
      “After a lot of flimflammery and economy with the truth, Nair managed to cajole completion cash out of a French company.”
flimflam
  1. nonsense
  2. deception
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    1. “He fell victim to a cunning flimflam and lost all his savings in the fraudulent investment scheme.”
      “He used flimflam to manipulate the stock market and amass a fortune overnight.”
flimflammer
  1. A swindler; a con artist.
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    1. “I guess I can tell a gentleman from a con man or a flimflammer when I meet him.”
      “A notorious flimflammer among traveling salesmen, he presents himself as a professor of musicology, organizing brass bands wherever he goes, but he doesn't have a clue about playing, much less reading, music.”
      “Apprenticing himself to Johnnie Gold, a Chinese con man and fight trainer, McCoy finds his future: he will be both a flimflammer and a boxer, a faker and the genuine article.”
flimflammeries
flimflammers
flimflams
  1. plural of flimflam
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    1. “Schultz flimflams everybody, and in some cases shoots the person he's teasing, popping him in the chest with a tiny pistol.”
      “Each new Madoff revelation sheds light on an entire culture that allowed far loftier flimflams than his to succeed — though the loftier culprits, unlike him, usually escaped with the proceeds.”
      “Congressional hearings into this and other Estes flimflams led to the highest levels of the Kennedy administration, particularly Johnson, who had been a business associate of Mr. Estes's in several ventures.”
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