gamblerlike

comparative more gamblerlike · superlative most gamblerlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a gambler.

   He had risked all his fortune on one cast of the die, and, gamblerlike, had lost everything.

   c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings

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   I knew that if I failed it would kill my parents, who, gamblerlike, were staking their very existence on my success.

   2007, James Huneker, Melomaniacs