flimflam artist/man

noun

informal

: a criminal who steals money from people by tricking them : con man

He lost all his money to a flimflam artist/man.

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Critics, meanwhile, pressed claims — never proved — that Mr. Fayed was something of a flimflam man in a bespoke suit and ascot, embellishing his fortune and background. —Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023

Now, Jackman is once again back on Broadway, starring in a bliss-inducing revival of The Music Man, Meredith Willson’s wry and tuneful fable about a traveling flimflam man who meets his Waterloo and the love of his life in small-town Iowa. —Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022

Yet Luhrmann, in presenting the Dutch-born, never legally emigrated Parker (née Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk) as a master flimflam artist who saw himself as the P.T Barnum of rock ‘n’ roll, revels in a certain fascinating ambivalence. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 May 2022