noun
- a person who engages in petty swindling or confidence games
Usage: informal
Examples
- The grifter convinced elderly people to invest in fake companies.
- She realized too late that the charming stranger was actually a grifter.
- The movie featured a clever grifter who ran elaborate cons.
- Police warned residents about grifters targeting tourists downtown.
- He had been working as a grifter for years before getting caught.
- The grifter’s smooth talking nearly fooled the bank manager.