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Meanings of card-playing in English
Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance.
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Usage of card-playing in English
1
You initiated the banker's clerk into the mysteries of card-playing and billiards.
2
It gives anyone with a little tact an opportunity for stopping card-playing.
3
That evening we spent together at Johnson's office in drinking and card-playing.
4
Being an invalid as you see, I have no amusement but card-playing.
5
There was hard drinking, horse-racing, and card-playing, and waste of substance generally.
6
That there be no begging, swearing, gaming, card-playing, quarrelling, or universal conversation.
7
Sunday afternoons were the big gambling and card-playing times in our semi-rural neighbourhood.
8
The Countess was a card-playing old cat; Lady Fanny was a desperate flirt.
9
It is a violation of etiquette to propose card-playing in another person's house.
10
These books may be said to embody a science of card-playing.
11
We weren't going to be put off by a bunch of card-playing jerks.
12
I recalled my mental states from the midnight prayer to the foolish card-playing.
13
The card-playing travellers had opened the door of the carriage.
14
The year 1648 was the era of card-playing at court.
15
They came, her card-playing friends assured her, with impeccable credentials.
16
Gendron was not badly wounded, and sat up to look on at the card-playing.