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

He does seem to have undergone several personal changes, picking up mixed martial arts fighting, dressing like an obnoxious dudebro — complete with gold chains — and talking like a masculinity grifter.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

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

“These are the claims of shameless grifters who are offering up fragmented financials.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

So it’s really no wonder that Altman, desperate for some promise of revenue, may be looking at the same source that is making crypto grifters, pick-up artists and gambling apps so profitable: Lonely, bored men.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 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