deceiver vs grifter

grifter vs deceiver

deceiver and grifter both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: 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 deceiver 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.

deceiver (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 deceiver and grifter

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