short-carded

Updated: July 22, 2026

He had subsequently endured two breach-of-promise suits, had broken the state automobile record for number of speed violation arrests, had been buncoed, badgered, paneled, blackmailed and short-carded out of sums varying between one hundred and ten thousand dollars; and now, in the year of grace, 19 , was the horror of the pulpit and the delight of the press of the city which he called his home.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Average Jones