Meaning & use
grifting
Engaging in small-scale fraud or swindling, typically to obtain money through deception.
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The con artist made a living grifting tourists out of their cash.
Investigators accused the salesman of grifting elderly customers with fake investment schemes.
A note on using this word
The related noun is 'grifter,' someone who habitually runs cons; the term implies a pattern of small, opportunistic scams.
Words with a similar meaning
swindlingconning
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