grifter
(noun)
noun
1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
Similar word(s): chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler
Definition categories: person, beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
Sentences with grifter as a noun:
- 1939. "We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel". The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler1958. "That was the train the drunks and the sinners rodeāthe gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew". That Hell-Bound Train. Robert Bloch