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

She wasn't a saphead herself, but there might be some about.

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

Excuse me, gentlemen, if I do the saphead act—by jinks!

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel

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)