cardsharp
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Watch her closely, the way you might watch the hands of a fast-dealing cardsharp, and be rewarded: a perfect, tiny can-you-believe-this eye roll here, a feline smile melting into laughter there.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
In the movie’s final moments, the writer-director Wong Kar-wai turns the camera on a character we haven’t met yet: a handsome young cardsharp in a low-ceilinged flat, preparing for a night on the town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
Ball, the Bull of Broad Street, in “Easy Living,” or when cardsharp Barbara Stanwyck makes an utter fool of ale heir Henry Fonda in “The Lady Eve.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
He was Bret Maverick, a cardsharp and ladies man who got by on his wits instead of a six-gun and would just as soon duck a fight as face a showdown.
From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2014
Not shark but sharp, and it’s spelled as one word, cardsharp.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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