Shane: I wasn't implying that "cardsharp" was wrong, just making the point that "card shark" wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.] Reference
After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
January 25, 2008 at 12:40 pm card shark vs. cardsharp?. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #139 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Lorena, a cardsharp who chooses love over glamour and money. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Bloom explains how a long night of dictation to a former student, plus a bottle of wine, led to the creation of Away, an epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent and accidental heroine.] Reference
But Karzai, a cardsharp lacking aces, is playing many hands at once. From Wordnik.com. [India and Pakistan's proxy war puts Afghanistan exit at risk] Reference
“Only so he could recognize a cardsharp when he played with one.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference
A cardsharp named Skelly still has his skill, but he's lost his nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-21] Reference
He tapped the back of the top picture like a cardsharp looking for luck. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard War]
But he could spot a cardsharp a mile away—and Miss Lake was no cardsharp. From Wordnik.com. [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference
She saw now that he had been like a cardsharp who passed the deal, using that, too, to gain her trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Having fallen in love with Astaire's cardsharp, she had hoped to marry him, until the fiancee from his past showed up. From Wordnik.com. [Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead] Reference
It came as a surprise to me, but Dictionary.com has two references for cardsharp, one from the American Heritage Dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.] Reference
And while I had lived with a cardsharp long enough to know one when I saw one, Mrs. Ferguson appeared to be playing honestly-for the moment. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
One of the more effective ads Axelrod produced in that campaign portrayed the GOP candidate, Dan Heath, as a cardsharp not to be trusted by voters. From Wordnik.com. [Shivs You Can Believe In] Reference
Other biographies slip in specific details of Nixon's history (his talents as a cardsharp, for example), but the only time Mr. Gellman's Nixon becomes a regular Joe is when the historian mentions Dick's family. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon Without Hindsight: Determined, Creepy, Durable] Reference
Utz is the hero of Utz. 'In Grimm's Etymological Word Book,' Bruce Chatwin explains on page 16 of his 150-page novella, '' utz 'carries any number of negative connotations:' drunk, '' dimwit, '' cardsharp, '' dealer in dud horses. '. From Wordnik.com. [Rules of the Game] Reference
I've never been to Vegas, but it doesn't take a cardsharp (or even a dullard) to understand that though readers also liked Mr. Sorrentino's and Mr. Markson's early books, those writers were never selected for the kind of mass appeal that is a consequence of, not a precursor for, the level of marketing investment that Mr. Russo and Candace Bushnell have received. From Wordnik.com. [Deep-Hearted] Reference
LUCKY WITH CARDS is the tale of a cardsharp who seems lucky to escape some angry suckers he cheated in Chicago--lucky until he meets a fetching young woman named Joyce Rogers who enlists his services in helping to kill her husband, an important man in the small Midwestern town where our cardsharp is resting up after the beating the suckers laid on him in Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Case--Lawrence Block; Richard S. Prather] Reference
A conniving cardsharp heads for a high-stakes poker game. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
He looked like a kindly country doctor and like a cardsharp. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountainhead]
No well-fitted cardsharp lacks a piece of equipment for sequestering desirable cards until they become useful. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [random($foo)] Reference
A software programmer with a passion for maths and statistics, he is about as far as you can get from the grim-faced, cigar-chomping cardsharp of popular imagination. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pickpocket, supper man, second-story man, yeggman, boxman, all-round burglar, cardsharp and slickest con man west of the Twenty-third Street ferry landing -- that's my history. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
Script also traffics in the kind of flat, shopworn comic relief that's become de rigeur for superhero fare -- mostly courtesy of mutant Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), a New Orleans cardsharp who teams with Logan at the midpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
Ask even a hard core cardsharp about the origin of playing cards and pointing to the king and queen in their Renaissance raiment, he may well answer smugly that, of course, the cards originated in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I’ve got it you’re a professional gambler -- a cardsharp!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
You see, he’s a cardsharp yes, sharp, not shark like I thought it was and he knows he can cheat his way to some dough. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Lucky at Cards by Lawrence Block] Reference
Be you magician or spellsinger, sorcerer or cardsharp, necromancer or solicitor, in the final analysis one lives or perishes by one's wits. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
During his first year at the Academy, he’d gained a reputation as a weekend cardsharp by using his mathematically inclined mind to count cards and improve his odds at winning the occasional dorm game of Texas Hold ’Em poker. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory, Book 3: Evolution] Reference
James Ward wants to prove he's no cardsharp. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Signs of a Pickup in Asia's Job Markets] Reference
Actor, writer, illusionist, cardsharp, storyteller, and David Mamet running buddy. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference
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