A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
An alert and energetic person.
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Examples for "sharper"
Examples for "sharper"
1It should mean sharper images and clearer sound: progress, in other words.
2A sharper-definition option, known as 4K, is planned for later this year.
3But while screen resolutions kept getting sharper, resolution independence never quite came.
4The cold outside felt sharper than it had a few minutes ago.
5Recently, however, the whole affair was pulled into sharper, more subjective focus.
1Foot by foot Frank found himself nearing the stern of the sharpie.
2Suppose you tell us, in a whisper now, what brought you aboard that sharpie.
3So they began preparations for breakfast, Frank keeping an eye on the sharpie meanwhile.
4Conrad hauled the sharpie to the water's edge and lashed the sail-bag to the foredeck.
5After a bit, I'm going to take the dinghy and paddle over to that sharpie.
1And suddenly infinitude closed up like a losing hand folding in a cardsharp's grasp.
2Sorak walked over to where the cardsharp's body lay, and nudged it with his foot.
3He was voted best cardsharp, to his mother's shame.
4He shuffled his little deck like a cardsharp.
5The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.
1He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.
2A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.
3In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
4Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.
5He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher-he'llshake his head....
1Plays the dialogue a like a card sharp palming an ace.
2The card sharp still cursed furiously, and backed away.
3Call suspected him of being a card sharp, but if so he was a careful card sharp.
4He was a card sharp, all right.
5And he stopped being a card sharp.
1He may be a card sharper himself.
2I looked upon Mr. Bundercombe as a card sharper of the ordinary type, and I simply blamed myself for having introduced him to my friends.
3You're nothing more nor less than common card sharpers.
4I'd rather be a Three- Card Sharper than a barrister; I'd rather sell cat's-meat in the streets.
5The card sharpers were treated like honest people.
1I'd come back from Ireland hot-wired to sense disaster; he'd come back a card shark.
2In the second part, Doc, a card shark, talks about how he tricks people at cards.
3He is a booze fighter and a card shark and a lot of other unscriptural things.
4I hear you're quite the card shark.
5The World Series of Poker attracts every grizzled card shark and optimistic internet amateur to Las Vegas.
1Sharpies and wet-erase markers dry on the surface within ten seconds.
2Seattle was a port town full of sailors, hard-luck transients, and been-around-the-world sharpies.
3Good-night, dear Sharpy; don't scold; I will be good, and get into bed.'
4Now these old-line agency fellows are not dummies; they're sharpies.
5The rig reminds me of some of the sharpies they use on the Connecticut coast.
6Coming to a place like this and bad-mouthing Sharpies?
7He claimed there was a poem about Sharpies in the Kokinshu imperial anthology of 905.
8They will only eat genuine Sharpies, smirked the director.
9Sharpies -black and silver: You will run into celebrities and industry icons at Comic-Con
10The president of the Sharpie Cake Company opened the proceedings with a brief history of Sharpies.
11It would be easy for me to create a contemporary version of Sharpies in a month.
12Poll workers then used sharpies to mark a circuitous path through a cafeteria to the polling place.
13Amanda's books were piled beside two Sharpies, a plate of chocolate-chip cookies, and a bottle of water.
14Some of the birds ate my Sharpies with gusto, but others spit them out and screamed, Sharpies!
15Sharpies! They were horrifying creatures to behold.
16The logs, sharpies, and dangerous bugs in that pool would result in prompt closure in the civilised world.