Discards harpoon held by cheat - quite the reverse

Usage examples of cardsharp.

The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.

Not that he expected Emmaline and her cardsharp ways would give anything away.

Mo took them and riffled through them like a cardsharp, a glint of commerce in his eye.

Jason, long and lean, black-clad, hottest cardsharp in the city, picks up his drink and sidles over.

The best he could ever be was a third-rate cardsharp, no matter how many delusions of grandeur he carried around with him.

Of particular interest was a trio of cardsharps who set up their game on the temple steps.

My duties were to expose cheats and cardsharps, and I was merely curious to see how you did so here.

And most of the inhabitants of the Leather Lane area were involved, at least peripherally, in fencing stolen goods, a little forgery, of documents if not of money, in pickpocketing, burglary, cardsharping and a dozen other illegal pursuits.

It was an expression that had been known to make cardsharps fling in their aces and the secretest of secret agents babble like babes.

Hookers and tricks negotiated with one another, cardsharps tried out their systems for beating the odds, drunks bemoaned their bad luck, and a few hundred dumb-asses parted with their money and loved every moment of it, while smoke and sweat and liquor fumes rose to the opaque sky of the pressure dome far above, obscuring the security flycams that prowled above the gaming areas, their lenses watchful for any unusual activity.

Resplendent in fancy cardsharp getup, Bill Towns saunters through the Lazy 8's swinging doors and leers at its proprietress without noticing that she is edging toward the bee now once again installed upon the shiny bar.