Did you maybe mean flimflam?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
- n. confidence game, con game
- n. archaic table tennis
Etymologies
- 1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. By reduplication. Perhaps from a dialectical word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim ("lampoon, mockery"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight.”
“Thirty years of voodoo economics and flim-flam have come home to roost as projected.”
“What do people do when hope runs out and there has been no change, just more flim-flam like “public utilities” with a wind-mill stuck on their ponds of coal-ash, nuclear waste, and toxic-debt.”
“• Another day of calm at the London School of Economics, where students yesterday demanded the dismissal of Satoshi Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist/flim-flam merchant who posted a blog in a quest to explain "why black women are less physically attractive".”
“And flim-flam them into seriously believing that they're not only part of something, they're part of a "Revolution!”
The Huffington Post: Robert J. Elisberg: The "Tea Party" Is Not Revolting
“Who knows better than you the story of the financial and political flim-flam artists who brought this country to its knees, made out like bandits, and left the 99% in the dust?”
“Even John McCain and John Boehner are now on-board the Obama flim-flam.”
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Moves Decisively to End the War in Iraq
“And now let's get to the paragraph a lot of you will flay me for: I don't think Ryan is a charlatan or a flim-flam artist.”
“In this sense, the imminent healthcare bill appears to be little more than an elaborate grift -- or as Dave Lindorff colorfully refers to it, "rip-offs, screwjobs, and flim-flam.”
Randall Amster: The Road to Health Care is Paved with Bad Intentions
“The expression 'sovereign default' is appearing ever more frequently, and the policy maker's economic flim-flam is starting to be being seen for what it is; a fraud.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flim-flam’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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F Alliteration
Two-word terms in which both begin with the letter F, such as friction fuze.
Hyphenated words are allowed.friction fuze, first fruits, French fries, fine fettle, far-flung, flim-flam, fish finder, fair fight, fair-weather friend, fish-flour, fork-full, front-facing and 3 more...
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Hyphen-hyphen
A list of interesting words incorporating a hyphen
cat's-paw, sea-mew, kiss-me-quick, kiss-ass, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, hush-hush, hugger-mugger, fox-trot, super-duper, fuddy-duddy, boogie-woogie and 33 more...
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Choi inspired
Fun words my friend loves and others I introduced to him.
Namby-pamby, Niminy piminy, Nitpick, Nit-wit, Piggly-wiggly, Ping-pong, Pitter-patter, Raggle-taggle, Riff-raff, zoot suit, zig-zag, wishy-washy and 73 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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haguremetaru's Words
floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Hocus-pocus, I see a crocus!
Reduplicatives
willy-nilly, higgledy-piggledy, harum-scarum, argy-bargy, boogie woogie, hanky panky, itsy-bitsy, helter-skelter, lovey-dovey, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy and 95 more...
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BlueBeetle's Words
prestidigitation, lubricious, agnuopia, phobologophobia, mellifluous, antediluvian, theodolite, vulpine, tmesis, nevertheless, brobdingnagian, pie and 55 more...
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sleight of hand
scam, bamboozle, flim-flam, swindle, defraud, hoax, peculate, direption, steal, asbscond, cabbage, pinch and 30 more...
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Double barrels or double doses
Words that double up or hyphenate
shilly-shallying, flotsam and jetsam, nooks and crannies, dilly-dallying, out and about, prinking and pree..., fuddy-duddy, flim-flam, hocus-pocus, fiddle-faddle, eeksy-peeksy, (on the) ran-dan and 12 more...
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Fun word-phrases
helter-skelter, topsy-turvy, hoity-toity, puddle-wonderful, easy-breezy, cat's pajamas, bee's knees, dilly-dally, touchy-feely, flim-flam, shilly-shally, willy-nilly
Tweets
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