as in profiteer
Related Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gouger
Noun
-
As a result, profiteers are searching for and extracting gold under worsening humanitarian and environmental conditions.—
SASHA LEZHNEV,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2025 -
Amid the uproar, L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks introduced a pilot program to curb the profiteers.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
-
TikTok sleuthing, in particular, appears to have a sharp focus on exposing cheaters.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
17 July 2025
-
The First Academy was portrayed as a compulsive cheater Bridgewater is being portrayed as a compassionate martyr.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 July 2025
Noun
-
Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
-
Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.—
Eric Stafford,
Car and Driver,
19 Feb. 2021
Noun
-
In Arizona, wildfires in shrublands or chaparral can be fueled by invasive grasses, like cheat grass.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
-
Adults eat it on their cheat day, birthday, moving day.—
The New York Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2025
Noun
-
Blue Jays Trade Rumors Reaching New Peak Read more Los angeles dodgers Sandy Alcántara Trade?—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 July 2025
-
Prosecutors painted a portrait of him as an artful tax dodger who devised one scheme after another to avoid paying his income taxes.—
Jay Weaver
July 24,
Miami Herald,
24 July 2025
Noun
-
And bringing all these hustlers together is the greatest con artist of them all – a cunning macaque who feeds on the spoils from unsuspecting tourists.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2025
-
The hustler mentality is big among resellers - talk about that mindset.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Noun
-
Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 Dec. 2024
-
Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
Noun
-
The 18th Street thugs then attacked a second victim with large wooden planks, causing lacerations that required sutures.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
-
Plus, she wasn’t forced to live in a remote jungle compound surrounded by gun-toting thugs, because no one was coming after her.—
Sam Kelly,
Time,
8 July 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Gouger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouger. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share