Sharper
['ʃɑːpə] or ['ʃɑrpɚ]
Definition
(n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cheat, rogue, swindler, trickster, shark, knave, blackleg, slyboots, jockey, SHYSTER, artful fellow.
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Examples
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have felt something sharper than cold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, A thoughtful man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The Spaniards built these watchtowers on the hills to enable them to keep a sharper lookout on the Moroccan speculators. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I never saw a sharper lad. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She was always dangling and ogling after him, I recollect now; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The edges of the lower mandible are serrated with teeth much more prominent, coarser and sharper than in the duck. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They thus make a sharper shadow than when radiating from the more extended surface of the glass. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One would have the sails trimmed sharper than another, so that they seemed to have no certain rule to govern by. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And now sharper feelings came shooting through her heart, whether pain or pleasure she could hardly tell. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I say you are a--a---- A man sharper than my neighbour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Yes, a man sharper than my neighbour; a regular sharper! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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