as in cheats
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
carnival sharpers eager to relieve the yokels of their money
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Noun
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Her character also has a fake handicapped license plate and cheats at golf.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025 -
No one cheats like college football.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Whale sharks may be confusingly named.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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When a prisoner died, they were either buried in unmarked graves or dismembered and thrown to the sharks.—
Maya Duclay,
ABC News,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Serial swindlers and men prone to violence are among the seven people Colorado’s gambling regulators have banned for life from casinos since the state created a system last year for barring problem bettors.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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McKelway, who wrote for the magazine from the nineteen-thirties to the sixties, specialized in true-crime stories, bringing to life a gallery of scamps and swindlers and impostors.—
David Grann,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Sharpers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharpers. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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