Accidental raising the pitch of a note by one quarter tone.
1 Round and Crook ought to have had them, only they weren't half sharp .
2 The particulars weren't numerous, and if the old lady had been half sharp she would have bowled me out.
3 If the police were half sharp they'd have nabbed their man before this... Did you put any water in this gin, Tomlin?
4 He did not himself care for the loose little talkings, half flat and half sharp , of men when they meet together in idleness.
5 "You're not half sharp enough," said Ezra.
6 "Winnie's not half sharp enough," she thought.
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