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grifter
/ˈɡɹɪftɚ/
noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
bigger, consummate, empty, mindless, soulless
GRIFTER + NOUN
monarch
PREP.
than
ADV.
completely
Definitions
noun
1
A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.
That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.
2
A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.
The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.
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We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.
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That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.
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From the small-time grifters like Anna Sorokin, who adopted the last name Delvey to masquerade in downtown New York circles as a European heiress for four years before she was convicted of second-degr
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Donald Trump is a consummate grifter.
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Oli London is a completely empty, soulless grifter.
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There's no bigger grifter than a monarch.
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