Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of cheating at cards; the profession of the card-sharper.
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Examples
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He was not to know that Moran, after retiring from the Indian Army, had turned his uncanny marksmanship to account by becoming a professional assassin in the employ of Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, or that the Colonel eked out his contract fees by card-sharping, as in the case of Stanger and Adair.
Watershed 2010
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Paul had been a clever "confidence artist" when Cameron first encountered him, alternating his time between parting fools from their money by sheer persuasion and by card-sharping.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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As Prince of Wales, first gentleman of Europe (God help us), he was the bright particular star and pack leader of the genteel rabble assembled at Tranby Croft, Yorks, for the Doncaster races, and knew perfectly well that any serious breach of polite behaviour by a fellow guest, such as card-sharping, was bound to land on his mat.
Watershed 2010
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He was not to know that Moran, after retiring from the Indian Army, had turned his uncanny marksmanship to account by becoming a professional assassin in the employ of Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, or that the Colonel eked out his contract fees by card-sharping, as in the case of Stanger and Adair.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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As Prince of Wales, first gentleman of Europe (God help us), he was the bright particular star and pack leader of the genteel rabble assembled at Tranby Croft, Yorks, for the Doncaster races, and knew perfectly well that any serious breach of polite behaviour by a fellow guest, such as card-sharping, was bound to land on his mat.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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Y 'see, being shut off from card-sharping, he was up against it, and so took to pot-hunting to get along.
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I once paid a great deal of attention to card-sharping tricks and as I acquired them, either of myself or from practiced gamblers, I demonstrated them to the young criminalists.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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And as to card-sharping, you've no talent whatever.
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"How much more if I call you a lying, card-sharping swindler?"
An Amiable Charlatan 1906
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The blighter once cross-examined me in a card-sharping case and made me look the biggest damned fool in Europe.
Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906
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