grift
Example Sentences
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“The finance industry is a grift,” is the online headline the New York Times slapped on Oren Cass’s nearly 3,300-word-long screed.
Along the way, Cass gives short shrift to the many useful things that the financial industry does that are not a grift.
One popular grift involved running improper trades in military license plates, which drivers could abuse to speed through traffic and avoid paying road tolls.
It’s astonishing how quickly the nonconformity of crypto turned into mainstream “number go up” speculation and then grift.
Appeared in the January 9, 2026, print edition as 'Welfare Grift From Minnesota to Mississippi'.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
