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CARD-PLAYING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does card-playing mean?
• CARD-PLAYING (adjective)
The adjective CARD-PLAYING has 1 sense:
1. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Familiarity information: CARD-PLAYING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Synonyms:
betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting
Context example:
sporting gents and their ladies
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Context examples
“I have looked at your fingers,” said he, “and my fancy for card-playing has gone,” and he struck them dead and threw them out into the water.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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