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Meanings of card sharp in inglés
A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
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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.
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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.
3
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.
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Sorak walked over to where the cardsharp's body lay, and nudged it with his foot.
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He was voted best cardsharp, to his mother's shame.
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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.
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A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The World Series of Poker attracts every grizzled card shark and optimistic internet amateur to Las Vegas.
Usage of card sharp in inglés
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He had been burglar, fancy bunco man, card sharp, art thief, dispatcher, engineer, bag man, envoy to the police, harbor thief, vault blaster.
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The game between Mr. Redburn and the gambler progressed; the eyes of he whom we have just described were on the card sharp constantly.
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Listen, Tom!-they'reSydney ducks, ticket-of-leavemen, short card sharps, and sneak thieves!
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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.