| Woven throughout the tale is a plea to those on the top of the pile to help the grifters and grafters and ex-cons and prostitutes find a place in society instead of in jail. |
| Certainly the world of The Grifters is not for the faint of heart, where life is a moral quicksand, relaxing is a death wish, and escape is impossible. |
| They're all a bunch of hoodwinkers, bamboozlers, grifters and swindlers. |
| The super-slick BBC1 drama about a bunch of grifters has bitten the dust. |
| Not only has spam quadrupled but the spammers' technology and methods also have been adopted by virus writers, grifters, and thieves. |
