Definition of flam
:a drumbeat of two strokes of which the first is a very quick grace note
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Confederate generals became the subject of articles, protests, and presidential flim flam, and Frederick Douglass reemerged on our homepage as a powerful political voice.
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That’s the kind of false, flim-flam shorthand that propaganda relies on in finding scapegoats for complicated problems.
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