gouger

noun

Definition of gougernext
as in profiteer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gouger
  1. profiteer
  2. cheater
  3. sharper
  4. cheat
  5. dodger
  6. hustler
  7. ruffian
  8. thug
Noun
  • Yet sanctions seemed not to touch those who rose to wealth during the war: looters, smugglers, and war profiteers protected by the regime.
    Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • For a quarter century we have been misled by a chorus of neocon war hawks, defense industry profiteers, think tank courtiers and media opportunists.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of profiteer
Noun
  • That changed after Remy Ma made a scathing social media post revealing Pap’s romance with Shields, accusing the rapper of being a serial cheater and being involved with multiple women.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Doute soon became one of the show’s stars and main driver of plot lines, from her bid to prove her ex, Tom Sandoval, was a cheater, to her precarious employment at SUR and off and on friendships with costars Stassi Schroeder and Katie Maloney.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of cheater
Noun
  • Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
Definition of sharper
Noun
  • By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.
    Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.
    The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of cheat
Noun
  • While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
  • Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
Definition of dodger
Noun
  • In the nineteen-nineties, a half-dozen or so hustlers emerged from the rubble of the old system to exploit their proximity to Boris Yeltsin and his family to snatch up invaluable state properties––oil fields, mines, television stations––at knockoff prices.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Melvin Combs, a small-time hustler, was introduced to selling heroin when Lucas fronted him several kilos from his Golden Triangle connection.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of hustler
Noun
  • Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
Definition of ruffian
Noun
  • The proximate cause of the war crimes chronicled in Han’s novels is South Korea’s succession of authoritarian governments, their soldiers and police; on Jeju Island, these were joined by gangs of right-wing thugs.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Like Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Assad will be remembered as a thug who left his country on the brink of state failure.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of thug
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