“He was embarrassed by the sharf insult because he knew it was right.” (Weiser)

“No one wants to start up with him because he's such a sharf." (Weiser)

"Did I ever feel (even while he was giving me a sharf vertel or a nudge in the right direction) that this was a person for whom the pleasures of Olam Hazeh meant absolutely nothing and I mean nothing?" (source)