grifter vs vocative

grifter

noun
  • A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan. 

  • A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity. 

vocative

noun
  • A word in the vocative case 

  • The vocative case 

  • Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation. 

  • Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord" 

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