[ US /ˈskaʊndɹəɫ/ ]
[ UK /skˈa‍ʊndɹə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
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How To Use scoundrel In A Sentence

  • He plays David as a charismatic rogue - someone the audience is supposed to recognize as a bit of a scoundrel, but like nevertheless.
  • “Ah, my chilt,” he exclaimed, seeing the bills of exchange, and turning to Esther, “you are de fictim of a torough scoundrel, ein highway tief!” Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
  • It was especially galling to be criticised by this scoundrel.
  • But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping - if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true. Flashman and the Dragon
  • Using the Smuggler as an example, you could choose to configure the cowboy opportunist as a "scoundrel" - a short-range stealth rogue, skilled in medicine - or a Eurogamer
  • As American pioneers headed westward, scoundrels occasionally would present forged letters of credit to wholesale merchants in larger towns.
  • I confess, sir, " he said, "that you talk like a scoundrelly socialist.
  • The scoundrels who made their living plundering, murdering those who got in their way, mercilessly defiling women… it was too much for her to bear.
  • I was a manipulator and scoundrel of the worst kind, who would do anything and everything necessary to satisfy my own insatiable appetite for ‘wine, women, and song’.
  • For blossoming from this scoundrel's chin was a hoary beard of such robustness and grooming that it called to mind a cloud brought to the shape of a man's face by the Lord himself.
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