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Antonyms for four-flusher
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fawr-fluhsh-er, fohr- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔrˌflʌʃ ər, ˈfoʊr- |
Definition of four-flusher
Origin :- "cheat, dishonest person," 1900, from verb four-flush "to bluff a poker hand, claim a flush (n.) while holding only four cards in the suit" (1896).
- As in quack : noun person who pretends to be an expert
- As in swindler : noun person who cheats another
- As in tartuffe : noun hypocrite
- As in fake : noun imposter, copy
- As in fraud : noun person who is false, deceitful
- As in hypocrite : noun person who pretends, is deceitful
- As in impostor : noun person pretending to be something else
- But, as I've said before, when it comes to figurin' on what women or horses'll do, I'm a four-flusher.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
- This extra dresser is a four-flusher, for he is trying to appear as something that he is not.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- He'd thought the world of Don Roberts, who had turned out a four-flusher.
- Extract from : « Rough-Hewn » by Dorothy Canfield
- Don hadn't ever pretended to be any less of a four-flusher than he was.
- Extract from : « Rough-Hewn » by Dorothy Canfield
- And I've got four thousand that belongs to that four-flusher, Square Deal.
- Extract from : « Square Deal Sanderson » by Charles Alden Seltzer
- You have been telling men that I am a coward and a four-flusher.
- Extract from : « Judith of Blue Lake Ranch » by Jackson Gregory
- The fancy-colored, freakish paper is nearly always used by the four-flusher in business.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- If an employe is a sluggard or a four-flusher, he may be sure these things will be found out and he cannot hope for advancement.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- I ain't such a four-flusher as to lay down my hand before I've played it out.
- Extract from : « Steve Yeager » by William MacLeod Raine
Synonyms for four-flusher
- absconder
- actor
- attitudinizer
- backslider
- bastard
- beguiler
- bigot
- bluffer
- bum
- bunco artist
- casuist
- charlatan
- cheat
- cheater
- chiseler
- clip
- con artist
- confidence artist
- counterfeit
- counterfeiter
- crook
- deceiver
- deception
- decoy
- defrauder
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- dodger
- double-dealer
- empiric
- fabrication
- fake
- faker
- falsifier
- flimflam
- flimflammer
- forger
- forgery
- four-flusher
- fraud
- gold brick
- gouger
- grifter
- hoax
- hoaxer
- hook
- horse trader
- hoser
- humbug
- hypocrite
- imitation
- imitator
- impersonator
- imposition
- impostor
- imposture
- informer
- junque
- lip server
- make-believe
- malingerer
- masquerader
- mechanic
- mimic
- mocker
- mountebank
- operator
- pettifogger
- pharisee
- phony
- plant
- play actor
- playactor
- poser
- pretender
- pretense
- pseudo
- put-on
- quack
- quacksalver
- racketeer
- rascal
- reproduction
- rook
- scam
- scammer
- scorner
- scoundrel
- sham
- shammer
- shark
- sharp
- sharper
- shyster
- simulator
- sleight
- slicker
- smoothie
- sophist
- spoof
- swindle
- swindler
- thief
- trick
- trickster
- two-face
- two-timer
- whip
- wolf in sheep's clothing
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