grifter

IPA: grˈɪftɝ

(informal, originally Canada, US) A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
(colloquial, especially Internet) A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.

Examples of "grifter" in Sentences

Albert is a member of a crew of grifters.
Madley is a traveling soothsayer grifter.
The bunco men and the real estate grifters.
I see Ugly Sarah Palin the grifter is at it again.
Does the word grifter come to anybody else's mind?
Grifter heard them entering and hid with the woman.
These range from the honor bound knight to the crafty grifter.
A grifter is someone who swindles you through deception or fraud.
If ard had somehow falsified a PHD he might be considered a grifter.
Mickey is a professional grifter who makes money by setting up long cons.
I realize that if a scam doesn't pay, no grifter is going to bother with it.
Grifter goes to Venice, planning to steal the money from an arms transaction.
And the term "grifter" is nothing more than an allegation that is an unprovable event.
No matter her flaws, there just isn't the kind of grifter history to suggest she set her kids up.
In film, Gould was best known as the grifter Kid Twist in the 1973 Paul Newman-Robert Redford caper The Sting.
She was a woman who had been described as a grifter, and who had been involved in various unsavory activities.
K. K.MES: There is no such thing as good grifter, sir, and the term "grifter" is nothing more than an allegation that is an unprovable event.
The short-con artist -- the "grifter" -- aims to tell the target -- the "mark" -- a story that convinces the mark to part with a small amount of money immediately, and then the grifter disappears forever from the mark's life.