grifter
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After meeting Skalnik, Ms. Colloff thought the grifter would acknowledge his duplicity, before she came to believe that he simply saw her as his latest mark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He was a grifter who spent your grandmother’s money, tried to spend your inheritance and his wife is continuing that not-so-grand tradition.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
"I never thought I'd see trad-wife grifter Gwen Stefani but here we are I guess."
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Smyth’s case has similarities to Anna Sorokin, a grifter convicted in New York of paying for a lavish lifestyle by impersonating a wealthy German heiress.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Low Key, who was a grifter from Minnesota, smiled his scarred smile.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
"Whenever there is a crisis -- especially in the health space -- the grifters are gonna come out," said Timothy Caulfield, a misinformation expert and professor at the University of Alberta.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
It is that the grifters now help define the terms of power.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The military swarms in to build a metal wall around the titanic alien, and Blunt’s cozy community of 700 swells to more than 100,000: scientists, journalists, tourists, opportunists and the inevitable grifters, criminals and weirdos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Recently, that has been our community colleges, where millions in federal student aid has been lost to grifters who use bots to sign up for classes, receive government money to help with school, then disappear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
Chaos had followed the fall of the South, just as war-ravaged societies always attract thieves and grifters.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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