profiteers

plural of profiteer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiteers
Noun
  • Meanwhile, posing as the original customer, the swindlers cancelled the order to get a refund.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Some swindlers thumb their nose at both and keep their cons going.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • After the cheaters’ disqualification, the event proceeded without issue.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Where the, where the signal is somehow maintaining its honesty, and that cheaters cannot undermine it.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Anderson’s chaotic but intensely touching father-daughter saga is set against a cluttered canvas of revolutionaries, cultists and political hustlers.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Harrelson and Snipes starred alongside Perez in White Men Can't Jump as two street basketball hustlers who entered into a business partnership together, only for chaos to ensue.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No one cheats like college football.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Her character also has a fake handicapped license plate and cheats at golf.
    Brie Stimson , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Profiteers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiteers. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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