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Recent Examples of wheeler-dealer
Delon was perfectly cast as a wheeler-dealer stockbroker who becomes involved with Vitti’s character but is unwilling and unable to satisfy her emotional needs.
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Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2024
Indeed, her self-branding as a wheeler-dealer is yet another step in her savvy journey up the industry ladder.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024
An opportunity presents itself via shady Viennese wheeler-dealer Bruno Reiter (Joel Basman), who enlists Lubo’s help to smuggle jewelry and other valuables across the border.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The Dutchman as exploitative wheeler-dealer David and Christopher Alden, twins, have made parallel careers as controversial stage directors.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
Advertisement And Boddie is a knockout as Roosevelt, a wheeler-dealer and golf enthusiast.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
In some ways, Moss-Bachrach’s Richie is the most intriguing character of all (with the possible exception of whenever the great Oliver Platt shows up for a scene as the wheeler-dealer Uncle Jimmy).
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2024
Indeed, her self-branding as a wheeler-dealer is yet another step in her savvy journey up the industry ladder.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024
An opportunity presents itself via shady Viennese wheeler-dealer Bruno Reiter (Joel Basman), who enlists Lubo’s help to smuggle jewelry and other valuables across the border.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The Dutchman as exploitative wheeler-dealer David and Christopher Alden, twins, have made parallel careers as controversial stage directors.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
Advertisement And Boddie is a knockout as Roosevelt, a wheeler-dealer and golf enthusiast.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
In some ways, Moss-Bachrach’s Richie is the most intriguing character of all (with the possible exception of whenever the great Oliver Platt shows up for a scene as the wheeler-dealer Uncle Jimmy).
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheeler-dealer
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Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
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The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
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Reynolds thrived in front of a live studio audience, playing a college-age rascal who was more interested in messing with his friends and pursuing harebrained schemes than deciding on a major.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
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The druid Merlin rears his ugly head, and is far from the affable rascal of T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, though the two books are both attempts to update Arthur’s legend for a contemporary audience.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
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Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
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Still, our heroes are not traditional heroes but rather scoundrels and knaves and outcasts, all of whom have complex inner turmoil and compelling character arcs.Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Alice begs for the knave’s freedom, putting herself in danger.Liesbeth Powers, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
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Players take on the role of Skif, who becomes a stalker after his home in Ukraine is destroyed by a rogue anomaly.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, seven electors went rogue—the most since 1972, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.Solcyré Burga, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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The European far right is skillfully seizing the moment, promising an agricultural overhaul and a chance to stick it to the city slickers.Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
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For the dapper dog walker there's plenty of tweed caps and country-style rain slickers.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
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How predators such as hawks, owls, eagles, foxes and coyotes — some of those coyotes likely carry the DNA of Mexican red wolves, once thought to be extinct in Texas — thrive within our city limits.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
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Other than being thin and thirsty, the fox appeared to be in good health and was responding to treatment, the Bird Alliance said.Kale Williams, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
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Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
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Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
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“Wheeler-dealer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheeler-dealer. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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