Skip to main content

grifter

/grif-ter/US // ˈgrɪf tər //

骗子,骗子们,骗子公司

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A lack of gatekeepers is broadly a good thing, but it also leaves the door open to grifters.

  • Meanwhile, back in India, the situation worsens with more new cases and grifters exploiting the situation.

  • Many of the personalities who ran these shows were poor business executives, and a few were flat-out grifters.

  • By the 1990s, he’d fallen in with grifters who “branded” him with companies whose business models percolated between accidental and overt fraud.

  • Which means that every Republican, no matter their true inclinations, winds up acting like the grifters and nutbars who keep winning seats in deeply red districts.

  • To most of the world, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted sex offender and a financial grifter.

  • Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is a grifter and a wingnut, but is he possibly a felon too?

  • After a lifetime being raised by and working alongside his grifter father, Bob decides he wants out.

  • Of course, Bernard Madoff makes Mr. Ponzi look like a nickel-and-dime grifter.

  • In the story, she was christened “The Hipster Grifter,” because she preyed upon skinny-jeaned Williamsburg sorts.