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flimflam

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of flimflam

1 a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
  • used a flimflam to get her way
Synonyms of flimflam

artifice, device, dodge, gambit, gimmick, jig, knack, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile
Words Related to flimflam

bluff, feint

cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, cunning, deception, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery

fraud, hoax, sham, swindle

blind, front, smoke screen
Phrases Synonymous with flimflam

sleight of hand
2 an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value
  • just the latest Internet flimflam to get e-mail recipients to reveal bank account numbers and other personal information
Synonyms of flimflam

bunco (or bunko), con, fraud, gyp, hustle, scam, sting, swindle
Words Related to flimflam

cross, fix

Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme

racket, rip-off

thimblerig, three-card monte

device, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile

counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony (also phoney), sham

flimflam

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of flimflam

to rob by the use of trickery or threats
  • Everyone likes to think that they're too smart to be flimflammed by anyone.
Synonyms of flimflam

beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, do, do in, fiddle, fleece, gaff, gyp, hustle, mulct, pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, swindle, victimize
Words Related to flimflam

extort, wrench, wrest, wring

clip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soak

exploit, milk

deceive, dupe, fool, gull, trick

rope (in)

betray, double-cross

bamboozle, fast-talk
Phrases Synonymous with flimflam

sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners

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