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Synonyms for shark
ʃɑrkshark

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sharknoun

    any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

  2. sharknoun

    a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

  3. sharkverb

    a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways

    "a card shark"

  4. sharkverb

    play the shark; act with trickery

  5. sharkverb

    hunt shark

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sharknoun

    Synonyms:
    sharper, cheat, swindler, blackleg, knave, trickster, slyboots, jockey, SHYSTER, artful fellow

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 3 votes

  1. sharknoun

    Synonyms:
    sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler, fraud, trickery

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "shark":

    sharks, -shark, mako

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How to use shark in a sentence?

  1. Gavin Naylor:

    The river sharks are particularly mysterious, they are archetypal, typical looking sharks like a great reef or bull shark. They sort of look like that but they have tiny little eyes and big broad fins.

  2. Thann Chanthy:

    I have no income for the past three weeks and no savings, i’m only able to pay if I borrow from a loan shark... I really don’t know what to do.

  3. Said Wright:

    I couldn’t make out anything except boat lights, i’d yell, but it was hard to tell how close they [the boat lights] were.There were times when I thought I could swim.But there was [shark] feeding going on all around me, and I was not sure if I could get to land.

  4. Michael Kelly:

    I watched the GOP debate ... and it was madness. I was blown away, and I keep thinking to myself: Wow, if Beau Willimon and the writing staff had a character like Donald Trump on our show -- if we had put a character out there, not named him Donald Trump, and that was someone who was legitimately running for office on our show, I think people would accuse us of jumping the shark.

  5. Tracy Tsang:

    There was an old saying in Hong Kong in the 1970s :' To stir shark fin with rice.' It was used to describe the lifestyle of the wealthy, implying that they were rich enough to afford shark fin on a daily basis, today, the older generation still considers serving shark fin to their guests during banquets a sign of hospitality.


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