cheater vs grifter

grifter vs cheater

cheater and grifter both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheater	Yes	No	No	No
grifter	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, grifter is a hyponym of cheater; that is, grifter is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheater:

cheater: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
grifter: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Other hyponyms of cheater include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheater (noun)	grifter (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Difference between cheater and grifter

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