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cardsharper

NOUN
  1. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

How To Use cardsharper In A Sentence

  • Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky's presence. Anna Karenina
  • Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky’s presence. Chapter XIX. Part III
  • The cardsharper lays down the twenty-four cards shown in the illustration, and invites the innocent wayfarer to try his luck or skill by seeing which of them can first score thirty-one, or drive his opponent beyond, in the following manner: -- The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
  • Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion. The Path of the King
  • Do you know, it seems that if I really had been born a cardsharper I should have remained a decent person to the day of my death, for I should never have had the boldness to do wrong. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
  • He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows The Schoolmistress and other stories
  • Not that I do not say that to be 'good,' to be able to look your own ugly jowl in the face in a mirror, is pleasant enough; but, as I see the matter, it is all one to other people whether you be a cardsharper or a priest so long as you're polite, and let down your neighbours lightly. Through Russia
  • He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper. Letters of Anton Chekhov
  • In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
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