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

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)

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

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel

"Hallie," said He, "if Billy only had your common-sense business instinct, I wouldn't ask for anything else in this world; but Billy is a saphead."

From The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story by Brown, Arthur William