grafter

Example Sentences

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The couple, who had been together for 24 years, shared a "beautiful family and a granddaughter", Mrs Day said, describing her husband as "just a typical family man, a grafter and a gentle giant".

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

He went from working in the vineyards to becoming a master grafter and eventually owning land and opening his tasting room.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket.

From Slate • May 10, 2018

For Parker is nothing if not a model professional, an old-fashioned grafter who began acting as a child, 25 years before she landed Sex and the City in her early 30s.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2016

So I’m the only grafter in the family.

From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John