1) Acuter 2) Cardsharp 3) Cardsharper 4) Cheat 5) Chiseler 6) Chiseller 7) Grifter 8) Keener 9) Scammer 10) Swindler 11) Welcher 12) Welsher
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1) Beguiler 2) Cheat 3) Cheater 4) Chiseler 5) Chiseller 6) Deceiver 7) Expert gambler 8) Gouger 9) Grifter 10) Keener 11) More acute 12) More astute 13) More brainy 14) More on the ball 15) More spiffy 16) More tart 17) Not as vague 18) Riverboat cardplayer 19) Scammer 20) Sharpie 21) Sharpy 22) Slicker
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A sharper is an older term, common since the seventeenth-century, for thieves who use trickery to part an owner with his or her money possessions. Sharpers vary from what are now known as con-men by virtue of the simplicity of their cons, which often were impromptu, rather than carefully orchestrated, though those certainly happened as well. The 1...
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• (n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
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Sharp'er noun A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. «
Sharpers , as pikes, prey upon their own kind.»
L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See
Swindler .
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Sharper is slang for a con artist.
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