Card sharps

Usage examples of cheats.

Amongst other things he assured me that the Siamese ambassadors were cheats paid by Madame de Maintenon.

This was the inn where Piccolomini and his wife were staying, and I found them there in the midst of a horde of cheats and sharpers, like themselves.

He then proceeded to tell me of the various tricks and cheats which kept them all alive.

One of the Matuschkins goes so far as to challenge all foreign cheats to master him.

This is a curious fact, for as a rule these bargellos are spies, liars, traitors, cheats, and misanthropes, for a man despised hates his despisers.

I did not wait to see the onslaught of the cheats on the dupes, but took my leave while the table was being made ready.

It not only cheats the indios, but raises the cost of food for everyone.

Yes, one could find apple-squires offering gaudy women to men upon the street and cutthroats and pick-purses and cheats and ruffians.

Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash.

Foremost of all, emblazoned at the head of every column, loudest shouted by every triumphant disputant, held up as paramount to all other considerations, stretched like an impenetrable shield to protect the weakest advocate of the great cause against the weapons of the adversary, was that omnipotent monosyllable which has been the patrimony of cheats and the currency of dupes from time immemorial,--Facts!

Traitors are like adulterers: anyone who cheats on one wife will likely cheat on another one, too.