Grifter

//ˈɡɹɪftɚ//

"Grifter" in a Sentence (8 examples)

Donald Trump is a consummate grifter.

Oli London is a completely empty, soulless grifter.

There's no bigger grifter than a monarch.

Chloe Cole is a soulless, mindless grifter who says whatever she's paid to say.

We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.

That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.

From the small-time grifters like Anna Sorokin, who adopted the last name Delvey to masquerade in downtown New York circles as a European heiress for four years before she was convicted of second-degree grand larceny in 2019, […] all impostors come equipped with a tall tale and a look to match.

The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.

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