[H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.
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Blackleg
Synonyms for "blackleg" (71 found)
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Strong matches (21)
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Translations
11 translations across 9 languages.
Afar
1 entries- migdá noun (fatal cattle disease)
Finnish
1 entries- huijari noun (person who cheats in a game — see also cheater)
French
1 entries- charbon symptomatique noun (fatal cattle disease)
German
1 entries- Schwarzbeinigkeit noun (fatal cattle disease)
Japanese
1 entries- 黒脚病 noun (fatal cattle disease)
Karamojong
2 entries- ekicurnet noun (fatal cattle disease)
- lokecuman noun (fatal cattle disease)
Polish
1 entries- szuler noun (person who cheats in a game — see also cheater)
Russian
2 entries- чёрная но́жка noun (fatal cattle disease)
- шу́лер noun (person who cheats in a game — see also cheater)
Walloon
1 entries- tcherbon des tchås noun (fatal cattle disease)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
[Y]our friend Bloundell-Bloundell is a professional blackleg, and travels the Continent, where he picks up young gentlemen of fashion and fleeces them.
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They have no regard for respectability like yours — nothing between a baron and a blackleg.
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I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
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