Pomposity of style is confined to sellers of spurious goods, whether gold-bricks, medicines, or scholarships.
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Gold-brick
Synonyms for "gold-brick" (153 found)
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A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.
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All of this costs money, but if we all determine to put our own shoulder to the wheel instead of seeing how we can gold-brick we can make Democracy work right here in our own state.
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... great numbers of “happy employees who are extremely loyal to the organization because they can gold-brick, be apathetic, and be non-involved in worrying about the effectiveness of the company.”
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