saphead

Example Sentences

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But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so he came to the saphead, and cautiously peered in.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Twenty minutes afterwards the sergeant, crawling warily on his belly, approached a saphead and after a brief word or two dropped in.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Sarah Eliza professed a preference for High, Low, Jack, and the Game; any saphead could play that.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John