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grifter

[ UK /ɡɹˈɪftɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

How To Use grifter In A Sentence

  • Because it's basically like a film noir grifter gangster story and Ed's the leader of a con team and they do this complicated grift.
  • Like its grifter characters, it's only as flashy as it needs to be and knows the value of being inconspicuous.
  • But taking on the grifters would destroy the show's reputation, which would mean a falloff in customers, more clems with the towners, and eventually being frozen off planet by most or all of the profitable stands that the show had developed. City of Baraboo
  • She was a woman who had been described as a grifter, and who had been involved in various unsavory activities. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2008
  • Jake is a mid level grifter whose latest elaborate sting has seen his crew heist money from a vicious crim by mistake.
  • I realize that if a scam doesn't pay, no grifter is going to bother with it. Cons
  • Low Key, who was a grifter from Minnesota, smiled his scarred smile. AMERICAN GODS
  • And the term "grifter" is nothing more than an allegation that is an unprovable event. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Convicted Murderers Sante and Kenneth Kimes Profess Their Innocence - March 25, 2001
  • Before becoming a grifter, Albert used to be a shoe salesman in the American Mid - West.
  • The short-con artist -- the "grifter" -- aims to tell the target -- the "mark" -- a story that convinces the mark to part with a small amount of money immediately, and then the grifter disappears forever from the mark's life. Site Home
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