A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
1 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....
6 Our way with cardsharpers is stern.
7 "That is N. N., the famous Tula cardsharper who was had up in connection with the Y. bank affair."
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