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    scoundrel


    1. absolute scoundrel he was


    2. 5No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly


    3. chance to gain on the scoundrel


    4. Only some of it I am sure, but we can work with that scoundrel if we have to


    5. “Stop, you scoundrel!” The voice was even louder now, as its owner ran across the field


    6. I deal with it in my other books, Tricks of Trade – Memories of a Rogue Lawyer if you are interested in the shyster ways of scoundrel criminal defenders


    7. What is it about an affable scoundrel that makes us wink at improprieties or worse, legal transgressions? I‘m referring, of course, to our own President William Jefferson Clinton who, along with the First Lady, have offered us Whitewater, Madison Savings and Loan, Rose Law Firm, Cattle Options, Travelgate, Filegate, Loral Communications, Buddhist Temple Fundraisers, (the) Lincoln Bedroom, (the) mysterious ―suicide‖ of Vincent Foster, Sex Scandals and Arkansas Mafia for our consideration


    8. Most of them live by the life of a scoundrel


    9. All of the above evidence debunking the myth of the “noble savage” is so plentiful that only a hack historian or a scoundrel could ignore it


    10. When their ways crossed, the scoundrel was contented with the rough indifference with which now was treated by his ancient friend and crossed words only when it was definitely indispensable

    11. "Did we kill that scoundrel Komadze?"


    12. I lost (what was big money to me) to a scoundrel attorney and got no service for it


    13. if I hadn’t been such a scoundrel, obsessed with my own self-important, petty competition with the Maynwarings, I wouldn’t be in this situation now


    14. That scoundrel Ansh had planted his seed in her, without even asking her permission


    15. What did he think was going to happen to me now, after getting me to move out here in the middle of nowhere? I knew he was a scoundrel, but I always thought, deep down, that he cared for me


    16. I, personally, have had lots of lives as a scoundrel, and it’s interesting how many bells these ring for me in my present life


    17. “And what about the other scoundrel?” asked Sal, wringing her soaked skirts and taking up her bucket


    18. The scoundrel in him still existed


    19. teach them also that for every scoundrel there is


    20. But if the scoundrel resists?

    21. daughter actually loved the scoundrel but he remained observant


    22. There was Ike the Dropper, that scoundrel who lives on women


    23. "He's a scoundrel, a criminal, and a manipulator


    24. "Tell that lying, cheating, scoundrel of a husband that I know he amassed a fortune before his death


    25. “Yes, I know… he’s a scoundrel


    26. He was handsome, sexy, and a scoundrel, but I couldn’t help but crave his touch


    27. He also had the reputation for being a total scoundrel when it came to women


    28. but a scoundrel would be ousted in no time


    29. black hat symbolizes the scoundrel


    30. Skull and cyclone, ripple and replace, the psychic and his poet sidekick, calIed upon by their ancestors under the command of the Desperado prince, they deal with the relic and race of war, tied to a rogue & scoundrel hot stuff

    31. Lorry's inquiries into Miss Pross's personal history had established the fact that her brother Solomon was a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she possessed, as a stake to speculate with, and had abandoned her in her poverty for evermore, with no touch of compunction


    32. "And why do you call yourself a scoundrel? I can't bear it


    33. He felt convinced that Svidrigailov was the most worthless scoundrel on the face of the earth


    34. A thief steals and knows he is a scoundrel, but I've heard of a gentleman who broke open the mail


    35. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot


    36. Why abuse it? Why insult honourable people, as that scoundrel Zametov does? Why did he insult me, I ask you? Look at these suicides, too, how common they are, you can't fancy! People spend their last halfpenny and kill themselves, boys and girls and old people


    37. Cardenio, then, being, as I said, now mad, when he heard himself given the lie, and called a scoundrel and other insulting names, not relishing the jest, snatched up a stone that he found near him, and with it delivered such a blow on Don Quixote's breast that he laid him on his back


    38. But the best of it is, the story goes in the neighbourhood that those who attacked us belong to a number of galley slaves who, they say, were set free almost on the very same spot by a man of such valour that, in spite of the commissary and of the guards, he released the whole of them; and beyond all doubt he must have been out of his senses, or he must be as great a scoundrel as they, or some man without heart or conscience to let the wolf loose among the sheep, the fox among the hens, the fly among the honey


    39. "Do you think," he said to him after a pause, "you scurvy clown, that you are to be always interfering with me, and that you are to be always offending and I always pardoning? Don't fancy it, impious scoundrel, for that beyond a doubt thou art, since thou hast set thy tongue going against the peerless Dulcinea


    40. Don Quixote offered to mount guard over the castle lest they should be attacked by some giant or other malevolent scoundrel, covetous of the great treasure of beauty the castle contained

    41. "You are a great scoundrel," said Don Quixote, "and it is you who are empty and a fool


    42. Be off, you scoundrel! Let the bolt fall


    43. and then turning to the keeper he exclaimed, "By all that's good, sir scoundrel, if you don't open the cages this very instant, I'll pin you to the cart with this lance


    44. But tell me, thou perverter of the squirely rules of knight-errantry, where hast thou ever seen or read that any knight-errant's squire made terms with his lord, 'you must give me so much a month for serving you'? Plunge, scoundrel, rogue, monster--for such I take thee to be--plunge, I say, into the mare magnum of their histories; and if thou shalt find that any squire ever said or thought what thou hast said now, I will let thee nail it on my forehead, and give me, over and above, four sound slaps in the face


    45. "Son of a bitch," said the duenna, all aglow with anger, "whether I'm old or not, it's with God I have to reckon, not with you, you garlic-stuffed scoundrel!" and she said it so loud, that the duchess heard it, and turning round and seeing the duenna in such a state of excitement, and her eyes flaming so, asked whom she was wrangling with


    46. To which Merlin made answer, "The devil, Sancho, is a blockhead and a great scoundrel; I sent him to look for your master, but not with a message from Montesinos but from myself; for Montesinos is in his cave expecting, or more properly speaking, waiting for his disenchantment; for there's the tail to be skinned yet for him; if he owes you anything, or you have any business to transact with him, I'll bring him to you and put him where you choose; but for the present make up your mind to consent to this penance, and believe me it will be very good for you, for soul as well for body--for your soul because of the charity with which you perform it, for your body because I know that you are of a sanguine habit and it will do you no harm to draw a little blood


    47. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard


    48. When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed (the tirade was accompanied throughout by tears) her whole face worked convulsively


    49. There can't be the annoyance of having to go into them in the middle of the night, and the unpleasantness, after saving your life by the skin of your teeth, of being hauled over the coals by irreproachable members of the Bar with hints that you are no better than a cowardly scoundrel and your wife a heartless monster


    50. Such a scoundrel of a fellow! such a deceitful dog! It was only the last time they met that he had offered him one of Folly's puppies! and this was the end of it!"





























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    Synonyms for "scoundrel"

    scoundrel villain rascal rogue

    "scoundrel" definitions

    a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately