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Meanings of card sharp in English
A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
Synonyms
Examples for "sharper"
Examples for "sharper"
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It should mean sharper images and clearer sound: progress, in other words.
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A sharper-definition option, known as 4K, is planned for later this year.
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But while screen resolutions kept getting sharper, resolution independence never quite came.
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The cold outside felt sharper than it had a few minutes ago.
5
Recently, however, the whole affair was pulled into sharper, more subjective focus.
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Foot by foot Frank found himself nearing the stern of the sharpie.
2
Suppose you tell us, in a whisper now, what brought you aboard that sharpie.
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So they began preparations for breakfast, Frank keeping an eye on the sharpie meanwhile.
4
Conrad hauled the sharpie to the water's edge and lashed the sail-bag to the foredeck.
5
After a bit, I'm going to take the dinghy and paddle over to that sharpie.
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And suddenly infinitude closed up like a losing hand folding in a cardsharp's grasp.
2
Sorak walked over to where the cardsharp's body lay, and nudged it with his foot.
3
He was voted best cardsharp, to his mother's shame.
4
He shuffled his little deck like a cardsharp.
5
The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.
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He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.
2
A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.
3
In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
4
Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.
5
He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher-he'llshake his head....
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Sharpies and wet-erase markers dry on the surface within ten seconds.
2
Seattle was a port town full of sailors, hard-luck transients, and been-around-the-world sharpies.
3
Good-night, dear Sharpy; don't scold; I will be good, and get into bed.'
4
Now these old-line agency fellows are not dummies; they're sharpies.
5
The rig reminds me of some of the sharpies they use on the Connecticut coast.
1
Batista's dream of a Cuban music and gambling paradise was hindered by his homeland's notorious reputation as an unregulated haven for cardsharks and swindlers.
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He may be a card sharper himself.
2
I looked upon Mr. Bundercombe as a card sharper of the ordinary type, and I simply blamed myself for having introduced him to my friends.
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You're nothing more nor less than common card sharpers.
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I'd rather be a Three- Card Sharper than a barrister; I'd rather sell cat's-meat in the streets.
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The card sharpers were treated like honest people.
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I'd come back from Ireland hot-wired to sense disaster; he'd come back a card shark.
2
In the second part, Doc, a card shark, talks about how he tricks people at cards.
3
He is a booze fighter and a card shark and a lot of other unscriptural things.
4
I hear you're quite the card shark.
5
The World Series of Poker attracts every grizzled card shark and optimistic internet amateur to Las Vegas.
Usage of card sharp in English
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Plays the dialogue a like a card sharp palming an ace.
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The card sharp still cursed furiously, and backed away.
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Call suspected him of being a card sharp, but if so he was a careful card sharp.
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He was a card sharp, all right.
5
And he stopped being a card sharp.
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It turns out his real father was a card sharp who was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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He came upon a party of Tennesseeans whom a famous card sharp had inveigled and was flagrantly robbing.
8
Which is a card sharp, originally.
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She looked at the leering card sharp whose mechanical voice was coming from the back of the machine and frowned.
10
From card sharp following the circus and sheet-writer to a bookmaker he graduated into bartender, into proprietor of a doggery.
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Sophara Miris had mismatched eyes and skin the color of rosewood, fine aquamarine hair and the hands of a streetside card sharp.
12
He had been burglar, fancy bunco man, card sharp, art thief, dispatcher, engineer, bag man, envoy to the police, harbor thief, vault blaster.
13
The game between Mr. Redburn and the gambler progressed; the eyes of he whom we have just described were on the card sharp constantly.
14
Listen, Tom!-they'reSydney ducks, ticket-of-leavemen, short card sharps, and sneak thieves!
15
The town was overrun with card sharps, shysters, thieves, and murderers.
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Thar's too many card sharps and gay gamboliers cavortin' about the town to please me.