drifting
Example Sentences
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The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024
“They’re grifting like you are, sir,” Mr. Perry interjected.
From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2023
Presently Sorokin, who used the last name Delvey during her grifting days, is being held at the Orange County Correctional Facility in upstate New York as she awaits deportation to Germany, where she holds citizenship.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2022
The families accused him of grifting off those false claims while defaming their loved ones.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022
Instead, they get by through grifting, donning fur coats to dine at restaurants where they’ve run up unpayable tabs.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021
