Sentence examples for cardsharp from inspiring English sources
The word "cardsharp" is usable in written English and is well written
It is typically used to refer to a person who is skilled at cheating in card games. Example: "The cardsharp managed to win every game, leaving the other players suspicious of his tactics."
noun
One who is skilled at card games, especially at cheating in them.
- One of Tim's great-grandparents had been a cardsharp in the wild west, and had been shot dead during a game.
It appeals to the sort of doughty people who revel in dust and cold, fugged-up windows, the jarring pain of every bump, and the need for the dexterity of a cardsharp combined with the strength of a poker-bender to engage the low ratio of the four-wheel-drive system.That system, however, has been the other crucial part of the Land Rover's success.
His comedy "Le Roman d'un Tricheur" (literally "The Novel of a Cheat," released here as "The Story of a Cheat") is the opposite — it's the cynical, picaresque story of the rise of an orphaned boy who, taking to heart an apprenticeship in decadent hotels and casinos, becomes a cardsharp who plunders the gaming tables of Monte Carlo where he had formerly worked as a croupier.
First, she is a cardsharp who sucks money from a wandering heir (Henry Fonda) on an ocean liner; then, scarred by his rejection, she becomes an English grande dame, bewitching him into a series of emasculating pratfalls; finally, she reverts to her first persona, fooling everyone except Muggsy, the hero's cynical valet.
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.
From the choppy years of his youth he has retained the wary eyes of a cardsharp, a thief's nerve, the combativeness of a brawler, the aplomb of a professional athlete, the flamboyant instincts of a promoter, and the glibness of a con man.
Traverse's sons — Kit, a mathematician; Frank, an engineer; and Reef, a cardsharp and ladies' man — set out to avenge their father's murder.
Here an innocent rich youth is being fleeced by cardsharps – a scene the artist could witness every day in the area around Rome's Piazza Navona.
Several people warned Woodman off, but he paid no mind and, on a few occasions, actually chased wary cardsharps down the street, begging them to take his money.
The rules laid it down most categorically that a cardsharper had to be paid, but a tailor had not; that one must not tell a lie to a man, but might to a woman, that one must not deceive anyone but one may a husband; that one must not forgive an insult but may insult others, etc.
Pilgrims would walk these roads for days to the cathedral plaza, and then camp out there amid the raucous brass bands and cardsharps and carnival rides.
Somewhere, during his lost years on the continent, he picked up the cardsharper's skills.
