as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
had the feeling that I had just been thimblerigged by the sweetest-looking old lady
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as in three-card monte
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thimblerig
Verb
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The responsibility and reasoning behind infidelity lie solely with the person who cheated.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025 -
After reconciling, the former couple still faced several challenges, including cheating allegations and public social media fallouts.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
30 May 2025
Noun
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These characters are fluent in three-card monte rap, no cards required.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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Smith, according to law enforcement, was basically playing three-card monte with wire transfers and bogus bank statements to help cover his high times and high-risk investments.—
Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
8 June 2024
Verb
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Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colo., for a vigil that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown, after a federal judge blocked the deportation of the suspect’s family.—
Colleen Slevin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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In some towns, utility poles were removed so the caravans could squeeze through.—
Angela Jackson,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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The business models of many of these firms resemble and blend together two different types of venerable scam business models - boiler rooms and pyramid schemes.—
Felipe Schrieberg,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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So, like all pyramid schemes, the only people who make money are the people who come in early.—
Dwyer Murphy
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
Verb
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And yet, it’s still rooted in something real, because Perry plucked much of the heavy-handed dialog Keery delivers verbatim from the Wowee Zowee press kit, contemporaneous Malkmus interviews, and things Malkmus told Perry himself.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
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The eggs, of course, are plucked from the hen house each morning.—
Matthew Monagan,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Federal officials said Bitwise resembled a Ponzi scheme and collapsed before that could happen.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2025
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The guy from The O.C. is the one trying to take down this trillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2025
Verb
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Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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There are a lot of risks doing that, but if someone wants to go all in and hustle for success, this can be a good option.—
Joseph Drups,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
Noun
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The walls of this racket are beginning to fracture.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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Kapoor, 76, was convicted of running a $100 million international smuggling racket, including stealing 19 ancient idols and illegally transferring them to his art gallery in Manhattan.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
2 June 2025
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“Thimblerig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thimblerig. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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