grift

• “' 'Confidence games' '' (also known as "grift") are [[criminal]] enterprises in which the”

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• “He lent a certain grace to his grift, even value to whatever he grabbed.”

  Lorelei

• “This is the lady who keeps losing elections and who has set up a PAC as a grift operation to pay her rent?”

  The Huffington Post: SOTU Bores, Bachmann Riles, And For Some Reason, Christine O'Donnell Was Booked On Good Morning America: The Mediagasm

• “He dissolves into roles, from game-show host Chuck Barris (2002's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) to a sex addict who feigns choking to grift restaurants (2008's Choke).”

  Sam Rockwell of 'Iron Man 2' stays visible and working

• “Jump cut to a couple of decades later, when a post-nose-job Danny is still working that grift on unsuspecting girls 20 years his junior.”

  The Washington Post: Ann Hornaday reviews 'Just Go With It,' with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston

• “Daunting Latinate terms like "consubstantial" are tools in the grift.”

  The Huffington Post: Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal

• “October 9, 2009 11: 00 AM ah grift, the alternate universe thing, awesome.”

  Wow. (Blog for Democracy)

• “In this sense, the imminent healthcare bill appears to be little more than an elaborate grift -- or as Dave Lindorff colorfully refers to it, "rip-offs, screwjobs, and flim-flam.”

  Randall Amster: The Road to Health Care is Paved with Bad Intentions

• “And we ended stirringly by requesting, insisting, demanding that this escrow grift cease immediately.”

  The Huffington Post: Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME FINANCE: RABID WEASEL

• “The reason Issa wants to do that is because he wants to add another layer of lobbyist exposure and internal favor trading, so that he and his colleagues can work a little additional grift for the benefit of their campaign warchests.”

  The Huffington Post: TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

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