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Sentence Examples
He used to say that his brother was the damnedest scoundrel that ever lived.
Well, Kane is a hero and a scoundrel, a no-account and a swell guy, a great lover, a great American citizen and a dirty dog.
Unless, of course, you want to be unmasked for the charlatan and scoundrel you are.
There was such a look of abject pain contorting her delicate features that he suddenly felt like an absolute scoundrel.
He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
You know every rat, snitch and scoundrel on this island, and between them they know everything shady that transpires.
Hang yourself for aught you're worth, You were a scoundrel from your birth, And if you cannot buy a rope, Some fool will trust you one, I hope.
The same thought had crossed Adam's mind, but he was determined not to spoil this trip by getting mad with the little scoundrel.
People were getting stuck into him, saying he was the cause of all our troubles, that he was a scoundrel and a monster.
She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical.
This is a political freebooter and scoundrel who is fated to end up in the company of sinister and fascist-minded elements.
The Fox News scoundrel is at it again, this time going after the Girl Scouts for ties to a gay punk band.
If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then maybe talk radio is the first refuge of felon.
But, what a man knows and what a scoundrel refuses to admit are worlds apart.
However, here is a case of an available document, and when the reader checks he finds that K is an absolute scoundrel.
One of the major assets of this spectacle rests on Brigitte Lafon, sulky and disarming scoundrel, truer than natural, with the ideal voice.
He knew, deeply, that in keeping his true identity from her, he had been a cad and a scoundrel, but he had been so eager for her to see him in a positive light.
Nationalism in many of Britain's former colonies today is the first refuge of the political scoundrel and the intellectual thug.
The mild-mannered accountant of a jewellery store prepares to wreak dreadful vengeance on his scoundrel boss.
The pretended «sovereignty» of the democratic right is but an abdication, and in most cases it is an abdication in favour of a scoundrel.
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So said Alan Beresford B'Stard, Tory MP, scoundrel and 1980s vehicle for Rik Mayall, who died on June 9th.
If the managing director is a scoundrel with criminal intent, rules do not help.
Can the soul of a good man, in a new incarnation, animate the body of a scoundrel?
I resolutely do not know what to do with the scoundrel who lives in this flat.
His daughter's hand was being sought by two rivals, one of whom, is a scoundrel who pretends to be a super-patriot, and Demophile, a friend of the people.
Given a choice between the scoundrel and the scold, who might the people go for?
As she nods off at night, Arya Stark mutters the names of every scoundrel she plans to kill someday.
Patriotism may be the last refuge of a scoundrel, but churning out a potboiler seems to be the last refuge of the overweeningly confident.
He was a charmingly dirty rotten scoundrel.
Morse's dying was treated like a death in the royal family, and the author, Colin Dexter, was roundly denounced, considered by many to be a feelingless scoundrel and worse.
In spite of our advice and counselling, some refuse to give up their old habits, with the result that they fall under the thumb of a scoundrel who abandons them after having ill-treated them and made them pregnant.
The modish scoundrel of the past seven years the immoral banker outwitting inept regulators—has been edged out by a returning blackguard: the tight-fisted boss crushing the hopes of honest workers with miserly pay.
Hummers are midges, a limmer is a scoundrel, to be sackless is to be innocent, a scrapple is a fight or disturbance and yedd means to go.
To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.
He knew him as a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward and, not least, a toady, ever able to make himself shine in the eyes of his braying superiors.
And to avoid the puritanism of certain times, maybe not so completetely over than that, the Blues kenw how to becom humorous, scoundrel, and was often declined at a second degree.
Of course, in the ongoing war against hackers, virus writers and spammers, it's likely some scoundrel will eventually come up with a way to circumvent these protective measures.
The thought occurred to me that there might be a domestic component to this, and so I'm posing this as a question, given that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
He is not called scoundrel miner for nothing!
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A fourth figure is the long fingered pious disturbed scoundrel Klávus.
I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
While on camera, Bruce behaves famously, but as soon as they stop rolling he turns into a scoundrel.
He is not crassly referred to as a cheater, a scoundrel or a liar.
The repairman pulled a gun, and the scoundrel ran for safety inside a store, where police arrested him.
Examples from Classical Literature
It must have reminded her of some unhung scoundrel she's met with in the course of her career, and she took it out of me.
It is often a question, indeed, to tell when a jongleur is really anything more than a roving scoundrel.
You are to receive the money, and share it with the scoundrel who intends to filch it from me.
I was convinced that the scoundrel spoke of himself, and I saw my conviction reflected in Miss dartle's face.
Mathews saw no more of the discounter or the cheque, the scoundrel entirely disappearing with the only proof in his pocket.
You make me feel like a scoundrel, and I've only been taking a little bit of happiness.
And it was this ogre, this brigand, this scoundrel Macquart, whom Adelaide had chosen!
The scoundrel who had spoken of his niece as if she were a strumpet must die.
Your wifes mother ceased to be a Forrester when she married that scoundrel.
Yure a big scoundrel, but Oi don't loike ter think any felly's villain enough to do murther.
He was suspected by Balhaldie of having the misfortune to be a double-dyed scoundrel.
What do you mean, you gadarene pig, you scoundrel, by insulting a stranger in this way?
Just as 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' so fatalism is the last refuge of a shirker.
The plank over that sluiceway makes a lot of racket, and the scoundrel may hear us and slip away.
I can drop on my knees and become as good an idolater as that scoundrel of a Sharp.
And yet the scoundrel is around trying to sniff out some shadow of a pretext for misusing her worse than he's already done.
Let him go and find carrots at a sou the bunch elsewhere, tipsy scoundrel that he is!
He is just the man to abscond with all the money and leave us in the lurch, the scoundrel!
But while she cared little for his adulations, she did not because of them consider him a scoundrel, nor necessarily a hypocrite.
Or was he a very clever scoundrel, with irony lurking in his soft voice, and a chuckle that could so befool me?
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It is not proper that gentlemen like you should besmirch yourselves by fighting with a low-bred scoundrel like this fellow.
In the course of a heavy tirade against the scoundrel, Redworth apprehended that it was the cantatrice's husband.
That was one of the lies your scoundrel David Macdonald circulated against us.
By the same art he would prognosticate a principality to a scoundrel.
He must be a cursed scoundrel to leave that poor lad there to die!
Now he shall be lashed from the door, the double-dyed scoundrel!
Meanwhile the glare of the face was again at the window, the scoundrel fixed as if to watch and wait.
For answer the scoundrel seized the boy, hurling him across the room.
It were better, and more in reason, that this thief and scoundrel here prove that we are NOT freemen.
Don't fancy it, impious scoundrel, for that beyond a doubt thou art, since thou hast set thy tongue going against the peerless Dulcinea.
And that iniquitous Yankee scoundrel who has slipped through my fingers.
Ivor, do you think that scoundrel will dare to play me false?
I play upon that execrable scoundrel with a fire-engine until the breath is nearly driven out of his body.
It rankled in my mind that I had been called a publishing scoundrel, for certainly I did publish and certainly I had not been very delicate.
De Chemerant, you are as culpable as this miserable scoundrel.
Are you the damnedest fool or the biggest scoundrel out of jail?
For he did not know how best to tell her that her brother was a scoundrel.
The scoundrel is half-drunk himself, and smells like a spirit-vault.
Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.
My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.
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An anonymous scoundrel who has brought no specific charge against him.
He was a resourceful, inventive scoundrel, and soon he had devised a plan.
The only survivor of the family at the present time is a scoundrel calling himself Captain Wragge.
The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.
Now do you think this unhung scoundrel has any inkling of our errand?
He knows old peeler, the low miserable scoundrel, who is her father.
I am sorry because I believe there is contamination in such a scoundrel.
When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed her whole face worked convulsively.
I came into the salon just as my quartermaster was pointing his carbine at the countess, his brutal way of asking for what she certainly could not give the ugly scoundrel.
The worst of it is that the poor boy will keep on this way until he deteriorates into a first-class newspaper man and also a first-class scoundrel.
I know how to chastise children, you see,' said the scoundrel, grimly, as he stooped to repossess himself of the key, which had dropped to the floor.
The lying scoundrel told me he'd be sure to pay me a hundred last month.
Why, then, instead of acting like th' upright, honourable man we've all believed you to be, you've been acting the part of a selfish light-minded scoundrel.
I'll never fight any man again, only when he behaves like a scoundrel.
