cardsharp

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He had called me names that day--a cardsharp, and a liar, and a thief, and a skunk, he called me, and I hated him just then.

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  • He tapped the back of the top picture like a cardsharp looking for luck. —  The Hard Way by Lee Child
  • He looked too cool, like a cardsharp with an ace up his sleeve. —  TAMI HOAG
  • A software programmer with a passion for maths and statistics, he is about as far as you can get from the grim-faced, cigar-chomping cardsharp of popular imagination.
  • Actor, writer, illusionist, cardsharp, storyteller, and David Mamet running buddy —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • He seems to have been a cardsharp rather than a magician; most of the book is taken up with cheating techniques, daintily not always called such. —  random($foo)
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