Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that deals dishonestly with others, especially a cheating gambler.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man shrewd in making bargains; a tricky fellow; a rascal; a cheat in bargaining or gaming.
- n. A sharpener; an instrument or tool used for sharpening.
- n. A long, thin oyster.
Wiktionary
- adj. comparative form of sharp: more sharp
- n. dated a swindler; a cheat; a professional gambler who makes his living by cheating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
Examples
“Yep ... sharper is better ... but yes, a bit pricey?”
“Then again sharper finishing from Higuain could have seen Real win 56-2.”
“Or – it might drive most of it underground but not too deeply, so that whatever occasionally surfaces will stand in sharper contrast to a street scene with fewer prostitutes and abusees.”
“A traveling FBvian puts the Galveston comparison in sharper contrast:”
“a long period of life: those later, in sharper afflictions.”
“Also, the ideas of Christianity are in sharper conflict with modernity than, say, Buddhism, at least the American style (it’s true the Dalai Lama condemns sex outside of marriage.)”
“I have NOT purged for quite some time. .maybe more than a month and my face looks a little sharper, which is such a good news!”
“The sooner that they rose, the sharper was their appetite and the barkings of their stomachs, and the gnawings increased in the like proportion, and consequently made these godly men thrice more a-hungered and athirst than when their matins were hemmed over only with three lessons.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Clearly, the larger the number who, under such conditions, acquire property, or achieve higher positions, or both, the sharper is the spur to the rest.”
“And the greater that value was, the sharper is the shock of the contraction of resources.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sharper’.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Jane Eyre
abigail, sanguine, chancel, bourne, peremptorily, parley, unwonted, fagging, convolvuli, tarry, insuperable, execrations and 190 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
Tweets
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amoore5272 John gambles dreadfully and always loses--poor boy! He is beset by sharpers...
- Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 21 Oct 28, 2009
yarb The simper of a simpleton is no bad countermine to the attack of a sharper.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 7 Sep 18, 2008