Definitions
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- noun A
con man . Someone who pullsconfidence games .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
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Examples
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I see Ugly Sarah Palin the grifter is at it again.
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I realize that if a scam doesn't pay, no grifter is going to bother with it.
cons 2005
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Does the word grifter come to anybody else's mind?
legitgov 2009
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In film, Gould was best known as the grifter Kid Twist in the 1973 Paul Newman-Robert Redford caper The Sting.
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She was a woman who had been described as a grifter, and who had been involved in various unsavory activities.
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The short-con artist -- the "grifter" -- aims to tell the target -- the "mark" -- a story that convinces the mark to part with a small amount of money immediately, and then the grifter disappears forever from the mark's life.
Site Home Eric Lippert 2011
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No matter her flaws, there just isn't the kind of grifter history to suggest she set her kids up.
THE NEWS BLOG 2005
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And the term "grifter" is nothing more than an allegation that is an unprovable event.
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K. K.MES: There is no such thing as good grifter, sir, and the term "grifter" is nothing more than an allegation that is an unprovable event.
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And the term "grifter" is nothing more than an allegation that is an unprovable event.
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