grifter

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 worked for Carlos Watson for nearly a decade, and I learned the hard way that with a hardcore grifter, the grift never stops.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024

The judge’s ruling that Smyth should be extradited could help bring about the end of a bizarre saga in which victims have painted Smyth as a master of disguise and a veteran traveling grifter.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 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

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

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

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