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
Your uncle was a grifter who spent his mother’s money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Whoopi Goldberg and her cohosts on "The View" called out the apparent immigration double standard in celebrity grifter Anna Delvey’s casting on “Dancing with the Stars,” despite her pending legal case.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024
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
Many of them are run by con artists and grifters, and even among those fueled by true belief, there is most often an element of greed.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Gil Blas, a Spaniard born without social standing, becomes caught up with grifters and is obliged to live by his wits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The rush of pseudoscientists, grifters, wellness influencers, and celebrity advocates into the space only made the chronic Lyme debate more fraught.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
The next, we despise celebrities, love outlaws, militants and misfits, and reject grifters like Shaun King and Michael Rapaport, both of whom have used Black culture opportunistically and talk too unabashedly on Twitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
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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