Con artist

Usage examples of grifter.

In a way, with some of the scores I took down, I was also a grifter, a con woman.

If either grifter were presently in Vancouver, it would have them pinpointed in less than a day.

There could be no more humiliating fate for a grifter than to have to pay the mark double.

She finished her coffee and drifted off, the picture of a young grifter looking for wallets to lift.

Don had no intention at all of buying it and he thought of telling the grifter that he considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cowbut he found that he had purchased it with his last coin.

Though it was a puzzlement to him how the daughter of a drifter and a grifter executed a one-eighty to become a small-town homebody, the fact that puzzles were his business made it, and her, only more interesting.

The small-town shopkeeper, the reformed grifter, the damsel in distress?

I fail to see how any federal court would be interested in an old carnival grifter using the profits from one business to start up or buy out another.

He made his living as a grifter, working with another god from his pantheon, a god of chaos and deceit.

Everyone had heard of the notorious Boston Beau, King of the Grifters, but we had never expected to see him trouping with our show.

And, as my faith in my nimble Pendiian eyes diminished, my respect for the grifters increased.

The two grifters went first up the steep narrow stairwell, out of an intuitive sense that they were still not fully trusted yet.

He might, for all Myrna or Johnson knew, have enlisted an entire army of grifters, grafters, hucksters and dips, who could communicate in ways even a thousand-year-old layman could not hope to grasp.

I know some theatrical agents I can call on and, of course, the Pinkertons keep files on grifters, bunko artists, and such, because they provide security at so many state fairs and such.

They naturally sent for other grifters to help them run their private town.