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SHARPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
Synonyms:
card shark; card sharp; card sharper; cardsharp; cardsharper; sharper; sharpie; sharpy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sharper" is a kind of...):
card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)
chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)
Context examples:
His mother represented power; and as he grew older he felt this power in the sharper admonishment of her paw; while the reproving nudge of her nose gave place to the slash of her fangs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and the pale gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than ever.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In particular, by some trick of the light, the canine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As yet there was no sign of the teeth growing sharper; but the time as yet was short, and there was time for fear.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"See," he went on, "see, they are even sharper than before. With this and this"—and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it—"the little children can be bitten.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then, far off in the distance, from the mountains on each side of us began a louder and a sharper howling—that of wolves—which affected both the horses and myself in the same way—for I was minded to jump from the calèche and run, whilst they reared again and plunged madly, so that the driver had to use all his great strength to keep them from bolting.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Whilst asleep she looked stronger, although more haggard, and her breathing was softer; her open mouth showed the pale gums drawn back from the teeth, which thus looked positively longer and sharper than usual; when she woke the softness of her eyes evidently changed the expression, for she looked her own self, although a dying one.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He told her those things in a way that frightened her—that made it look as if I was some kind of cheap sharper.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
