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View synonyms for grifter

grifter

[ grif-ter ]

noun

Slang.
  1. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction.
  2. a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grifter1

First recorded in 1910–15; grift + -er 1
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Example Sentences

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

For the second time, this dangerous grifter and polarizing cultural thief will be centerstage on the bully pulpit.

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Much of what gets marketed as "wellness," by Kennedy and other grifters, is actively bad for people's health.

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Harmony Holiday: What is this pattern wherein you can trade the currency of Black glamour to become an overt grifter, a clout chaser with no vocation but that — an “industry plant”?

He told the BBC in September it was an industry “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”.

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