Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that deals dishonestly with others, especially a cheating gambler.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man shrewd in making bargains; a tricky fellow; a rascal; a cheat in bargaining or gaming.
- noun A sharpener; an instrument or tool used for sharpening.
- noun A long, thin oyster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
comparative form ofsharp : moresharp - noun dated a
swindler ; acheat ; a professionalgambler who makes his living by cheating.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
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Examples
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Yep ... sharper is better ... but yes, a bit pricey?
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Then again sharper finishing from Higuain could have seen Real win 56-2.
Real Madrid v Milan – as it happened Tom Lutz 2010
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Yep ... sharper is better ... but yes, a bit pricey?
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Or – it might drive most of it underground but not too deeply, so that whatever occasionally surfaces will stand in sharper contrast to a street scene with fewer prostitutes and abusees.
Sigh 2008
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A traveling FBvian puts the Galveston comparison in sharper contrast:
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a long period of life: those later, in sharper afflictions.
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Also, the ideas of Christianity are in sharper conflict with modernity than, say, Buddhism, at least the American style (it’s true the Dalai Lama condemns sex outside of marriage.)
Albemarle Teacher Sues Over Jesus Picture at cvillenews.com 2002
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I have NOT purged for quite some time. .maybe more than a month and my face looks a little sharper, which is such a good news!
miss her loads! freakymandy 2004
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The sooner that they rose, the sharper was their appetite and the barkings of their stomachs, and the gnawings increased in the like proportion, and consequently made these godly men thrice more a-hungered and athirst than when their matins were hemmed over only with three lessons.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The sooner that they rose, the sharper was their appetite and the barkings of their stomachs, and the gnawings increased in the like proportion, and consequently made these godly men thrice more a-hungered and athirst than when their matins were hemmed over only with three lessons.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
yarb commented on the word sharper
The simper of a simpleton is no bad countermine to the attack of a sharper.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 7
September 18, 2008
amoore5272 commented on the word sharper
John gambles dreadfully and always loses--poor boy! He is beset by sharpers...
- Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 21
October 28, 2009