grift
Example Sentences
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One popular grift involved running improper trades in military license plates, which drivers could abuse to speed through traffic and avoid paying road tolls.
It’s astonishing how quickly the nonconformity of crypto turned into mainstream “number go up” speculation and then grift.
Appeared in the January 9, 2026, print edition as 'Welfare Grift From Minnesota to Mississippi'.
It’s easy to be suspicious of the gains, considering Carvana was in the news earlier this year after famed short-seller Hindenburg Research dubbed it “a father-son accounting grift for the ages.”
From Barron's
That in this his 88th year Thomas Pynchon has published another novel, beginning in 1930s Milwaukee, of all places, packed full of punny names per usual, featuring a lug of a detective, successful with women who flirt as exquisitely as they dance or sing or grift, then shifting to Europe where it can be hard to sort out, from moment to moment, who’s in power, is more than anyone could have hoped for.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
