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Cardsharper

noun
1.
A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.  Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy.






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"Cardsharper" Quotes from Famous Books



... are!" laughed the first-class passenger. "He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher—he'll ...
— The Schoolmistress and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... wear, knotted round his throat. Over him bent a man in a long coat with a cape, a man in a dark peruke, whose face was clear in the lantern's light. Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion. The third man stood apart and appeared from his gesticulations to be speaking rapidly. He wore his own sandy hair, and every line of his mean freckled face told of ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan

... case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy. He passed many evenings almost alone with Louis XV., who, where men were concerned, liked them to be of good family (about ladies he was much less exclusive). The Count had a grand manner; he treated some great personages ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne



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