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  • The current one is a Ponzi Scheme that makes "Bernie Made-off with my money" look like a two bit chisler.

    The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back 2009

  • We handed this chisler a half-a-buck a piece and he gave us back a ticket then ushered us through a curtain that had a handpainted view of the actual Green Valley Nudist Colony somewhere out in the hills of California we assumed, a delightful Wateau-like scene complete with barely visable but noticeably naked maidens enjoying life all over that pleasurable Green Valley.

    Tune Out If You're a Minor...or if you're a miner. The Daily Growler 2006

  • Nothing makes you look more like a chisler than to be twice the price of somebody else.

    outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001

  • (Among the excellent things about that scene is that it left the question open as to whether the funeral director-an exploitative chisler though he may have been-was right that Matt's impetuous demand was a bad idea.)

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

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