hustler
Example Sentences
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“The cunning they used to survive a hustler’s childhood,” Ms. Collinsworth observes, “had become a streak of ruthlessness in their adulthood.”
And that’s just me, going from a shy kid to being a hustler and grinder and living in New York and just continuing the pace and doing more and more.
From Los Angeles Times
The WWE is a shallow reality show perpetuated by rich hustlers to con those of average means so the rich can get richer and the poor don’t notice.
From Salon
But the liveliest and most revealing parts of “The Colonel and the King” actually come before the Colonel meets the King, as Guralnick paints a picture of a tireless hustler desperate to reinvent himself.
From Los Angeles Times
As with the proverbial frog in that pot of water, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s chilling action-thriller “Cloud,” about a callow internet hustler’s reckoning, has nothing good to offer about where online anonymity and e-capitalism have gotten us.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
