grift

Example Sentences

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“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I want him working. I don’t want him doing a GoFundMe,” Hines told THR in January.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

It’s easy to be suspicious of the gains, considering Carvana was in the news earlier this year after famed short-seller Hindenburg Research dubbed it “a father-son accounting grift for the ages.”

From Barron's • Dec. 8, 2025

What we have seen this year is new levels of graft and grift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Digital-asset evangelists are especially sensitive to the climate critiques, which popped up time and again during the pandemic-era crypto bubble as myriad celebrities—even the nominally environmentalist ones—got in on the grift.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025

“Let me come along. I can sell tickets. Russ can do anything—he’s young. Give me his job. I can still count, and I don’t short-change. I know you don’t run a grift show.”

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen