cardsharp

• “Shane: I wasn't implying that "cardsharp" was wrong, just making the point that "card shark" wasn't.”

  languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.

• “After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.”

  The Jungle

• “Lorena, a cardsharp who chooses love over glamour and money.”

  Amy Bloom explains how a long night of dictation to a former student, plus a bottle of wine, led to the creation of Away, an epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent and accidental heroine.

• “Having fallen in love with Astaire's cardsharp, she had hoped to marry him, until the fiancee from his past showed up.”

  The Washington Post: Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead

• “I've never been to Vegas, but it doesn't take a cardsharp (or even a dullard) to understand that though readers also liked Mr. Sorrentino's and Mr. Markson's early books, those writers were never selected for the kind of mass appeal that is a consequence of, not a precursor for, the level of marketing investment that Mr. Russo and Candace Bushnell have received.”

  Deep-Hearted

• “But Karzai, a cardsharp lacking aces, is playing many hands at once.”

  The Guardian: India and Pakistan's proxy war puts Afghanistan exit at risk

• ““Only so he could recognize a cardsharp when he played with one.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Hellion in Her Bed

• “But he could spot a cardsharp a mile away—and Miss Lake was no cardsharp.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Hellion in Her Bed

• “A cardsharp named Skelly still has his skill, but he's lost his nerve.”

  Archive 2010-03-21

• “Did she really think he was such a skilled cardsharp that he could stack the deck as he shuffled it?”

  Simon & Schuster: Crown of Earth

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