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
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
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
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
Much of what gets marketed as "wellness," by Kennedy and other grifters, is actively bad for people's health.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
There’s never a shortage of grifters and manipulators using this public confusion to their advantage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 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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