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)

My seat was next to Mrs. Martin for safe keeping, while grey eyes sat across from me and talked to an aggressive looking saphead in a watered silk waistcoat.

From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack

Baines set him down as the sort of young man who would play Kelly pool with money his mother earned by doing laundry, and, in addition, catalogued him as a "saphead."

From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington