card-sharper

He was passionately fond of cards; but as he had no money, and could never pay his debts at cards (though he was never a card-sharper), no one at last would sit down to a game with him.

A Desperate Character 2006

There is a consciousness among all who speak of him that he amasses his money not by honest trade, but by unknown tricks as does a card-sharper.

The Way We Live Now 2004

He is a card-sharper and in general a shady personality, yet it cost father more than two thousand roubles.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Of course, the worst of it is that, knowing he was a rascal, and a card-sharper, I none the less played palki with him, and risked my last rouble.

The Idiot 2002

All Moscow knows he's a card-sharper and he can't resist any little tart of a dressmaker who catches his eye.

The Heart Of A Dog Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 1968

The arts of the card-sharper and thimble-rigger had been prodigally employed to save the candidate of Mozart Hall.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

I've seen the newspaper cutting of the time, and I'm the son of a murderer, who was also a forger, a thief, and a card-sharper.

Uncanny Tales Various

As a matter of practice it is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938

A politician need be no more than something between a curate and a card-sharper.

Waiting for Daylight 1915

"I mean that he is a card-sharper, a common cheat."

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915