grifter
Example Sentences
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His coverage of pump-and-dump grifters proves he can tell a complicated story simply and well, milking every beat.
From Washington Post
“We are going to see who are the politicians, who are the grifters and who are the America First patriots,” Gorka said.
From Seattle Times
“We are releasing the J6 tapes and not one single lying grifter on social media had anything to do with it,” Greene tweeted.
From Seattle Times
We even see this nostalgia for the bad old days in the rote response of grifter right-wing figures like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk to modern pop culture.
From Salon
There are other ideas worthy of consideration, but the standard should be writing rules that target wealthy freeloaders and corporate grifters and then enforcing those rules.
From Washington Post
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