(n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
(2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
(3) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
(4) Text is said to appear sharper, while a "control centre" on the phone allows users to adjust settings with just one swipe from the bottom of the screen.
(5) It's no coincidence that both novels are about how easily children can be warped or damaged, but of the two it is the shorter, sharper Great Expectations that has aged better.
(6) In 6-d and older myotubes, A bands became increasingly more aligned, their edges sharper, and the separation between them (I bands) wider.
(7) (iii) Shrunken gels give sharper photographic images and provide better interlane protein band comparisons.
(8) At low percentages of Hb-F, the sharper zone of the Tris method is more easily visible than that of the Bis-tris method, but the latter is a somewhat more rapid procedure.
(9) During the hyperglycemic clamp pubertal children showed enhanced insulin responses and in turn a sharper fall in amino acids (P less than 0.05 vs. prepubertals).
(10) The positivity may be related to the effort needed to inhibit associated movements in order to perform a sharper and more discrete response.
(11) Although the female preponderance of human thyroid cancer was not seen in dogs, females showed a much sharper increase in risk with advancing age than did males.
(12) SC and EGB subfractions showed a considerable decrease in the enzyme activity of dogs aged 3 months; this peculiarity persisted up to the 6-month age in the above formations, especially in the subfractions B, C, D and E. Dogs aged 1 year exhibited a sharper decrease in the general activity of the enzyme of formations C, D, E in EGB and SC.
(13) Six months after treatment the sample as a whole showed good maintenance of treatment effects, but the differences between groups had become somewhat sharper, with the special behavior therapy group faring best, the regular behavior therapy group intermediate, and the psychotherapy group worst.
(14) The clinical correlate is "sharper bronchoalveolar respiration".
(15) The visitors had started looking significantly sharper and took a surprise lead after 91 seconds through Tomas Malec, although Ahmed Elmohamady equalised with a header to send the teams in level at half-time.
(16) The potential role of nonlinearities in the magnetic field gradient in magnetic resonance imaging for producing sharper boundaries for the excited spin slice region is investigated.
(17) "The review of public procurement is examining whether the UK is making best use of the application of EU procurement rules, as well as the degree to which the government can set out requirements and evaluation criteria with a sharper focus on the UK's strategic interest and how the government can support businesses and ensure that when they compete for work they are doing it on an equal footing with their competitors."
(18) The contrast with the treatment of the 2014 crash of Malaysian airlines MH17 in eastern Ukraine could hardly be sharper.
(19) In the mouse PBL system, after administration by gavage, B[l]A was more cytotoxic and produced a sharper elevation in SCE frequency than B[a]P.
(20) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
Spiv
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
(2) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
(3) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
(4) Vince Cable today went ahead with his critique on the "murky" world of high finance, railing against the "spivs and gamblers" of the City despite a backlash against pre-briefed elements of the speech.
(5) The businessman’s reputation was dealt a further blow following a debate in which he was labelled a “billionaire spiv” who should never have received his honour in the first place.
(6) The tone of the language used by the business secretary, Vince Cable, at the Lib Dem conference this week has alarmed some bankers – whom he dubbed "spivs" – ahead of the commission.
(7) He added: "Those [Cable] once referred to as spivs and gamblers are laughing all the way to the bank."
(8) Four phospholipases (Sm-SP1 to Sm-SPIV) were also isolated, the latter showing, similarly to BthTX (Sm-SPv) myonecrotic activity.
(9) The list, which was published by Cable on Wednesday following a long campaign by politicians and the media, revealed that three aggressive hedge funds were given the "golden ticket" status despite the business secretary's pledge that Royal Mail would not fall into the hands of "spivs and speculators".
(10) To the aesthete Guardian, the average City trader looks pretty ugly because they drive swanky cars and are spivs,” he tells me, “but you should respect the mores and the facts.” I promise to try.
(11) CJ Facebook Twitter Pinterest AL Kennedy: ‘I’d rather not give vandals and spivs power over my emotions.’ Photograph: Murdo Macleod AL Kennedy Writer and comedian I live in London now.
(12) He later told Sky News that "spivs and speculators" shouldn't distract from the important job of putting Royal Mail on a sound commercial footing.
(13) "Each of those chosen few investors was given, on average, 18 times more shares than other bidders, on the basis … they would not be spivs and speculators.
(14) 9.27am BST Vince Cable also tells Sky News that the government's aim is to get good value for the taypayer, which he claims the government has done, and putting the company on a better footing Photograph: Sky News 9.21am BST Cable: Never mind the spivs and speculators Business secretary Vince Cable is up on Sky News, being challenged over the 35% surge in Royal Mail shares this morning.
(15) The capital's bankers may be glorified spivs, but we need them to maintain a respectable balance of trade and not be swept aside in the next stage of globalised capitalism.
(16) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
(17) In the photographs I had seen, Catrambone sported a spiv’s moustache, though he was starting to add what would become a thick, tightly curled beard.
(18) Only, I suppose, that expressing yourself is partly about feeling you can do so without being restricted by gender – even if that means dressing up in a trilby, a spiv's suit and a badly glued-on moustache.
(19) The business secretary Vince Cable makes speeches about spivs and charlatans and is applauded in the press.
(20) They got rich because, other than spivs and gamblers, they enjoyed their work and were good at it.