Definition of Card-playing

1. Adjective. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance. "Sporting gents and their ladies"

Exact synonyms: Betting, Dissipated, Sporting
Similar to: Indulgent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Card-playing

carcinosis
carcinostatic
carcinostatics
carcoat
carcoats
carcoma
carcoon
carcooned
carcooning
carcoons
card-carrying
card-clothing
card-house
card-index
card-playing (current term)
card catalog
card catalogue
card counter
card counters
card counting
card game
card games
card key
card keys
card player
card punch
card punches
card shark
card sharp

Literary usage of Card-playing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"card-playing on the Atlantic. ' him a year's trial. If she is not comfortable at the ' expiration of that time, she means to go back to Scotland ' again. ..."

2. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"Card Playing.—Sunday.—Mass.—A Dinner Party.—Mementoes of Home.— Dinner Customs.—Return to tha Kuins.—A marked Change.—Terrific Thunder.—A Whirlwind. ..."

3. The Bookman (1903)
""Pa" does not spend a great deal of time in the smoking room ; in fact, he looks upon the place, its atmosphere, its card playing, and its fondness for ..."

4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... the family—-Precaution against famine—English praying and card-playing—Exercise for mind and body—Knight-errantry—Sentimentality and mawkish- ness— The ..."

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