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Definition of grift in English: griftverb ɡrɪftɡrift [no object]North American informal Engage in petty or small-scale swindling. 用不正当手段谋利，诈骗 how long have you been grifting? Example sentencesExamples - His exceptional skills at grifting combined with his good looks have allowed him to believe that he can con anybody.
- There's a lot of grifting online from people who are not really who they claim to be.
- Frank Gorshin and Shirley Jones play a con artist couple who have gambled and grifted their way into the good life.
- Sooner rather than later, Gus' funds begin to run out, so he begins grifting for money.
- The writer is more interested in the hype and glamour of grifting then in knowing anything about the reality.
- The #1 rule of grifting is to con the mark in such a way that they don't want to turn you in.
noun ɡrɪftɡrift North American informal A petty or small-scale swindle. 不正当的谋利，诈骗 a Sixth Avenue palmistry grift Example sentencesExamples - Juan gets caught trying to pull the same grift twice in a convenience store.
- A few of his old backers, Richard Perle, Michael Rubin, still remain on the team, but it's pretty clear that for most of his former friends, that the grift is over.
- At first you think there's some sort of grift going on, a con of some sort, which McConaughey is going to have to figure out.
- Today's favorite grift, he says, is offshore money laundering.
- Matchstick Men follows the lives of Roy, a veteran of the grift, and his ambitious protégé, Frank.
- And Martha discovers that there is a dear price to pay for buying into a world of grifts, scams, and dishonesty.
- Back when salesmen were viewed as barely employable con men working some sort of semi-legal grift, the profession was populated almost entirely with drunks.
- Because it's basically like a film noir grifter gangster story and Ed's the leader of a con team and they do this complicated grift.
- The crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts.
- Only when Ann Merai and her husband - along with the hundreds of thousands of dollars - go up in smoke, does Matt realize that he's been entangled in an elaborate grift, where every single clue winds up pointing towards him.
- The challenge of unpredictable variables, as a matter of fact, is what makes a grift fun.
- Because the movie is too lazy to set up some grifts, Reilly and Luna are established as out-and-out thieves.
Synonyms sham, fraud, pretence, imposture, hoax, fake, misrepresentation, blind, wile, artifice, trojan horse
Derivativesnoun ˈɡrɪftəˈɡrɪftər North American informal A person who engages in petty or small-scale swindling. I saw him as a grifter who preys upon people Example sentencesExamples - The search for this loot has gotten a lot of media attention - and apparently become the focus of scams being run by Internet grifters.
- A few of these grifters have been jailed, including a Texas man sentenced in January to 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to repay the government about $1.2 million.
- Not only has spam quadrupled but the spammers' technology and methods also have been adopted by virus writers, grifters, and thieves.
OriginEarly 20th century: alteration of graft3. Rhymesadrift, drift, gift, lift, rift, shift, shrift, sift, squiffed, swift, thrift, uplift Definition of grift in US English: griftverbɡrift [no object]North American informal Engage in petty or small-scale swindling. 用不正当手段谋利，诈骗 how long have you been grifting? Example sentencesExamples - Sooner rather than later, Gus' funds begin to run out, so he begins grifting for money.
- The #1 rule of grifting is to con the mark in such a way that they don't want to turn you in.
- There's a lot of grifting online from people who are not really who they claim to be.
- His exceptional skills at grifting combined with his good looks have allowed him to believe that he can con anybody.
- Frank Gorshin and Shirley Jones play a con artist couple who have gambled and grifted their way into the good life.
- The writer is more interested in the hype and glamour of grifting then in knowing anything about the reality.
nounɡrift North American informal A petty or small-scale swindle. 不正当的谋利，诈骗 a Sixth Avenue palmistry grift Example sentencesExamples - A few of his old backers, Richard Perle, Michael Rubin, still remain on the team, but it's pretty clear that for most of his former friends, that the grift is over.
- Because the movie is too lazy to set up some grifts, Reilly and Luna are established as out-and-out thieves.
- And Martha discovers that there is a dear price to pay for buying into a world of grifts, scams, and dishonesty.
- At first you think there's some sort of grift going on, a con of some sort, which McConaughey is going to have to figure out.
- Today's favorite grift, he says, is offshore money laundering.
- Juan gets caught trying to pull the same grift twice in a convenience store.
- Matchstick Men follows the lives of Roy, a veteran of the grift, and his ambitious protégé, Frank.
- Because it's basically like a film noir grifter gangster story and Ed's the leader of a con team and they do this complicated grift.
- The crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts.
- Back when salesmen were viewed as barely employable con men working some sort of semi-legal grift, the profession was populated almost entirely with drunks.
- Only when Ann Merai and her husband - along with the hundreds of thousands of dollars - go up in smoke, does Matt realize that he's been entangled in an elaborate grift, where every single clue winds up pointing towards him.
- The challenge of unpredictable variables, as a matter of fact, is what makes a grift fun.
Synonyms sham, fraud, pretence, imposture, hoax, fake, misrepresentation, blind, wile, artifice, trojan horse
OriginEarly 20th century: alteration of graft. |