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.
Every villain has his Achilles' heel. And microscopic scoundrels are no exception.
To reign until a filthier scoundrel than he arises; then he perishes and in his place the leather-seller appears, the Paphlagonian robber, the bawler, who roars like a torrent. The Knights
Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
What surliest misanthrope would not find this world lovely, were these things done: scoundrels whitewashed; some degree of scavengering upon the gutters; and at a cheap rate, thirdly? Latter-Day Pamphlets
Whether I'm zealot or scoundrel is beside the point. Behe Responds
Blair is a thoroughgoing scoundrel, who has been prepared to stir up the hornets 'nest of the Middle East (at the cost of enormous loss of life) for personal aggrandisement and financial gain. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Virtually all those who have achieved prominence or notoriety have been exposed as mediocrities and rank scoundrels.
`And though I'm happy to buy a bargain or two off the fellow, I wouldn't want my daughter hitching up with such a dissolute scoundrel. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
He was bribed by that scoundrel, Jingle, to put me on a wrong scent, by telling a cock-and-bull story of my sister and your friend Tupman!
Kelly draws up a large, impressive, even diverse, cast of Irish cops and gunrunners, Italian mobsters and mistresses, Russian immigrants and killers, saints and scoundrels.
The scoundrel was on his way to the fazenda with the idea of consummating a vile scheme of extortion which he had been preparing for a long time. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
It was unthinkable that any one save a thief and an out-right scoundrel, such by the way as were all of his business rivals and the men who refused to tote and carry at his bidding, should make a threat like that; worse than unthinkable, utterly, depravedly disgraceful that one of the house of Packard should resort to such devious and damnable practices. Man to Man
If this scoundrel was a Republican the article would have written in BOLD letters GOP Senator from Montana. Baucus spokesman confirms Hanes pay raise
`Let me at the scoundrel ,' he cried, clanking across the yard, and throwing open his visor. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
In fact, in modern usage, ‘scoundrel’ can be a playful term referring to a prankster or banterer.
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
`And though I'm happy to buy a bargain or two off the fellow, I wouldn't want my daughter hitching up with such a dissolute scoundrel. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
He described in detail their fighting against the scoundrel.
Hypocrites, cranks and scoundrels have always been with us, on both sides of the aisle.
People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works! Archive 2009-04-26
Blaming the masses for electing ‘rogues, scoundrels and even worse’ to power, it went on to express no confidence in any of the political parties.
I always felt that our Reginald was a great scoundrel," Littimer purred over his cigarette. The Crimson Blind
The last refuge of a scoundrel is to change discussion to absolutes that have never stated by anyone to make a point. Protesters Demand UVa Contractors Living Wage at cvillenews.com
His report denouncing the investment world as a pack of scoundrels was met with jubilation in many quarters.
That's the conundrum of the modern skeptics movement: Intelligent Design theorists and deniers of global warming may very well be phonies and scoundrels, but no one is going to debunk them in the classic sense.
Every gapper-mouth zany grinning at me, and scoundrels swearing that I get my share! Mary Anerley
Of course, the scoundrels using “unguided” as a codeword for “atheistic” even “antitheistic” for political purposes are a different story. ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb
Grief decides the queen is the key to the problems and that Deasy has to be struck by a dead pig as a scoundrel and blackguard. “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
If a bailee should be a scoundrel and sell the thing left with him for safe-keeping and receive the money, the true owner could, nevertheless, claim the thing wherever he could find it. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
For evil purposes are, perchance, due to the imperfection of human nature; that it should be possible for scoundrels to carry out their worst schemes against the innocent, while God beholdeth, is verily monstrous. Consolation of Philosophy
How long must the majority of the Scottish people continue to elect such deceitful scoundrels and charlatans who masquerade as champions of the working class in our country?
I can confirm from personal knowledge and with full evidence to support the charge -- he is a scoundrel, a blaggard and a proven liar with all the ethics of a semi-house-trained polecat. Martin Lewis: Murdoch Scandal: New Arrest Heralds US Peril for Murdoch
The whole house was so glad that the scoundrel had been exposed that they set up siccan a roar of laughter, and thumped away at siccan a rate with their feet that down fell the place they called the gallery, all the folk in't being hurl'd topsy-turvy among the sawdust on the floor below. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
His book is populated with scoundrels, megalomaniacs, psychopaths, manipulators and sadists - people he happens to find interesting.
She agreed that the scoundrels should be jailed - just like, she added, miscreant priests and their duplicitous protectors among the bishops.
He was a member of Sethos's gang and a thoroughgoing scoundrel; when he attempted to betray his dread master, Sethos had him killed. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
We are dreamers, idealists, romantics - interlopers, charlatans, scoundrels.
He has been forced into being a frontman for a bunch of modern-day American scoundrels.
Among those who are guilty of an offense against good taste, he is a scofflaw tormented by felons and scoundrels.
As a result, liars are passed off as scoundrels or rascals, or even lovable rogues.
He was a member of Sethos's gang and a thoroughgoing scoundrel; when he attempted to betray his dread master, Sethos had him killed. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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
Her name was never mentioned in the family after she slid down a rainspout one night and eloped to marry a depraved scoundrel who drove through there on a red wagon with tinware inside that he would trade for old rags. Somewhere in Red Gap
Thankfully the little scoundrels dropped Lucky and apologised before running off, but still - why try and steal my old cat?
He presents his advisors and confidantes as ignorant dupes at best and scoundrels at worst.
‘Robust scoundrels’, although guilty, would not crack under torture.
This is a political freebooter and scoundrel who is fated to end up in the company of sinister and fascist-minded elements.
I dare say if we looked back into our histories we'd find rogues and scoundrels. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
And, in conclusion, I wish to compliment all three of you on the courage and resource you displayed in tracking down these damnable scoundrels -- _damnable_ scoundrels. Raw Gold A Novel
She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical.
If you apply the word scoundrel to Captain O'Brien, sir, in his name I contradict it. Peter Simple
The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes; Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated
Scoundreldom has multiplied beyond our ability to contain it, a historic day for New York!
These scoundrels succeed in politics only on the basis of their guile, their cunning, or basically their ability to delude people into falling in line with the rhetoric they throw up.
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.
But patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel - especially a scoundrel facing electoral decimation within months!
`Let me at the scoundrel ,' he cried, clanking across the yard, and throwing open his visor. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests.
The popular appreciation is that our politicians are scoundrels and rascals and therefore interesting.
Berthiers intrigue for him: -- old Foulon, who has now nothing to do but intrigue; who is known and even seen to be what they call a scoundrel; but of unmeasured wealth; who, from Commissariat-clerk which he once was, may hope, some think, if the game go right, to be Minister himself one day. The French Revolution
Children must be removed from these scoundrels as early as possible and be taught correct facts and values by Party-approved professionals.
Labels: comics comments: annie said ... zounds! where did you meet this amazing scoundrel of graphic wonder! Noah Farlee's Giskard the Genius
No, YOU were about ready to have the time of your life, snarled Katrina, with that disgusting man… a low-life murderer and a scoundrel.
He described in detail their fighting against the scoundrel.
The same thought had crossed Adam's mind, but he was determined not to spoil this trip by getting mad with the little scoundrel.
Now he alights on acoustic balladry, a scoundrel's last refuge. Times, Sunday Times
He need not know anything whatever; he may be wholly useless and a cumberer of the earth; he may even be known to be a consummate scoundrel. Mark Twain: A Biography
Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests.
People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
This man, apparently so foolishly good-natured, simple, and absent-minded, could guess all the cunning of a prison wag, unmask the astutest street huzzy, and subdue a scoundrel. The Commission in Lunacy
At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Sole Music
This woman is a complete IDIOT – I wonder if she even knows the definition of ROGUE - a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail
I can't endure talking to those scoundrels.
It was clearly a haven for thieves, pickpockets, scoundrels, and worse.
This piece of wit incensed my friend to such a degree, that he called the blacksmith scoundrel, and protested he would fight him for half-a-farthing. The Adventures of Roderick Random
This wolf is not a desperado, but a scoundrel.
The Hunsdens were always unrivalled at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey — they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word pragmatical just now — that word is the property of our family; it has been applied to us from generation to generation; we have fine noses for abuses; we scent a scoundrel a mile off; we are reformers born, radical reformers; and it was impossible for me to live in the same town with Crimsworth, to come into weekly contact with him, to witness some of his conduct to you (for whom personally I care nothing; I only consider the brutal injustice with which he violated your natural claim to equality) — I say it was impossible for me to be thus situated and not feel the angel or the demon of my race at work within me. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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 athletes who take drugs to gain a secret advantage over those who obey the rules are cheats and scoundrels.
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.
Willy Harris makes no physical appearance in the play, yet is mentioned several times as a no-good scoundrel.
Thomas Jefferson said the first act of a scoundrel is to wrap himself in the flag. Strickland: 'I feel very secure here in Ohio'
The wolf is not a desperado, but a scoundrel.
“The scoundrel was on his way to the fazenda with the idea of consummating a vile scheme of extortion which he had been preparing for a long time.” Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. It's a Flee Country
Of course I had not the intimate knowledge of the scoundrel that some persons-" "Nil nisi bonum, Emerson," I murmured. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
JONES: I do not understand that system of ethics which draws a distinction between a straightforward, honorable, veracious, and pure-minded man in private life, and a deceitful scoundrel as a public officer. A Country of Vast Designs
Nor shall I expatiate on the alkahest of that mad scoundrel, Paracelsus, with which he pretended to reduce flints into salt; nor archaeus or spiritus rector of that visionary Van Helmont, his simple, elementary water, his gas, ferments, and transmutations; nor shall The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
Kaffrarian friends, so when two glib tongued scoundrels endeavored to claim my burrow on the score of prior occupation, they were soon hunted off. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
And this is owing to you, you scoundrel," said his master in a rage, "owing to your neglect and carlessness -- but there is no placing dependence upon one of you. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
The shocking story of an accomplished heiress who was tricked into marrying an Irish scoundrel by a fake duel, her wretched married life, her audacious escape and landmark legal battles, andmost staggering of allher abduction by her estranged husband from a busy London street, seemed like the stuff of fiction. Wendy Moore explains how she came to write Wedlock, the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
That's the conundrum of the modern skeptics movement: Intelligent Design theorists and deniers of global warming may very well be phonies and scoundrels, but no one is going to debunk them in the classic sense.
When Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., the celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, amorist, and self-confessed poltroon, began to write his memoirs early in the present century, he set to work with a discipline remarkable in one whose life and conduct were, to put it charitably, haphazard and irregular. Watershed
I got out of my chaise and went to the prisoner, who was sitting on horseback, and called him, I believe, a rascal or a scoundrel, or something of that sort; he made me no reply
This man is no heroic savior; he is the same kind of prevaricating scoundrel that you have been living with for generations. Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
However, after much trouble and expence, by employing some of the meanest and lowest scoundrels in the place (who, to use the phrase of the person who recommended this method to me, would, for a ducatoon, cut their master's throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes), I recovered them all but the two ewes. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
Oh! you scoundrel! you impudent bawler! everything is filled with your daring, all Attica, the Assembly, the Treasury, the decrees, the tribunals. The Knights
Art thou speaking ill of women, cried Panurge, thou mangy scoundrel, thou sorry, noddy-peaked shaveling monk? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
His book is populated with scoundrels, megalomaniacs, psychopaths, manipulators and sadists - people he happens to find interesting.
In the whole course of my life I never came across so mean a scoundrel; and now you chaffer with me as to whether or no you shall criminate yourself! Castle Richmond
For avoiding all the rhetoric and telling the naked truth, they have sacked me… those scoundrels!
Later events proved him in fact to have been a ‘daring and unprincipled scoundrel’.
It never occurs to them that the woman is lacking in intelligence because of her refusal; nor that the man she prefers is a lowbrowed scoundrel. Robert Browning: How to Know Him
We're rascals, and scoundrels, and villains, and knaves.
Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.
Unless, of course, you want to be unmasked for the charlatan and scoundrel you are.
The big fellow at the wheel — the nerviest and most conscienceless scoundrel in the THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
And none of the priests actually seems to be a dirty rotten scoundrel - most of them seem to be more bumpkinish rather than churlish.
All save poor Captain Alphonse, that is; for it was only when the coast was clear of the scoundrels and the poop safe again that I had time to think of him. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
But M. Fortunat, in whose heart the word scoundrel was still rankling, stopped him. The Count's Millions
For example, do they reject your farmboy protagonist as whiny and prefer your scoundrel sidekick character? Writing Question: Unlikable Protagonists
All of the ostensible scoundrels are scoundrels to the core, and their scheming, both inter- and intra-clan, is Byzantine to the point of being barely fathomable. 'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls
“As if I would marry a scoundrel like you,” she informed him with a minxish look that grated on his nerves. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Instead he should be "peached" by all the scorned women in the state until he cries and apologizes for being a scoundrel. South Carolina panel votes against impeaching Sanford
He did also ungird the knightly sword belt from him, though he was absent, and by the judgment of all declared him infamous, a scoundrel, unworthy the name of Christian.
Aren't Sicilian scoundrels wooing comely American lasses behind every corner?
Yes, it will," said the captain of the xebeque; "and remember, you scoundrel, if you can escape and buy off justice, you shall not escape seven Portuguese knives, -- mind you that. The Privateersman
Analogously, it may be true that we possess dedicated mechanisms for ˜reading™ faces as trustworthy or threatening, and often make split-second judgments on this basis; but this doesn't preclude our ability to revise such judgments, as when we reflect on the behavior of someone with ˜trustworthy facial features™ and realize that he is actually a scoundrel. Morality and Evolutionary Biology
I gave the scoundrel a slap in the face.
It is perfectly clear that Mark Twain admires this disgusting scoundrel. Mark Twain: The Licensed Jester
This was not welcome news and we were roundly attacked as scoundrels or defeatists.
For all the trouble the scoundrels had imposed upon us, my rage was aimed at this one man who had caused the worst of my own experience.
One of the scoundrels finding that he was baulked of his prey, threw a large stone at Patterson as he was sitting on the side of his bed, which he narrowly evaded by stooping down.
Mrs. Mac – Candlish’s postilion, who had come up in time to hear what passed, said aloud, ‘If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie, the dirty scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddle.’ Guy Mannering
Mac-Candlishs postilion, who had come up in time to hear what passed, said aloud, If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie, the dirty scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddle. Chapter XIII
Ever since JAG signed off nearly six years ago, one of the most frequent topics in my mailbag is the hope that David James Elliott last seen in ABC's short-lived Scoundrels last summer will find his way back to CBS. Matt's Weekend Picks: January 7-9
His book is populated with scoundrels, megalomaniacs, psychopaths, manipulators and sadists - people he happens to find interesting.
When a party of the Shays rebels came to the house of General Pomeroy, in Northampton, and asked if he could accommodate them, -- the old soldier, seeing the green sprigs in their hats, the badges of their treason, shouted to his son, "Fetch me my hanger, and I'll _accommodate_ the scoundrels! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
A few scoundrels will toss bags into a lane or a ditch (or sneak them out to their neighbour's curb).
Never have we seen gathered in one place such a collection of underclasses, scoundrels, rogues, and slummocks, all indulging in acts of depravity and vile seediness.
The scoundrel was run through with a long iron stake in a most indelicate way and served up to his hungry flock as Roast Flank of Minister. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
He used to say that his brother was the damnedest scoundrel that ever lived.
Certainly this scoundrel is not the first to think M. M. Christian Has an Evil Doppelganger « Skid Roche
Mrs. Mac-Candlish's postilion, who had come up in time to hear what passed, said aloud, 'If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie, the dirty scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddle.' Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
Then, with an intuitive scoundrelism, or Machiavelism, surprising in one of my age, I went and stood in the door, and looked about me in the rooms, though I saw nothing; for both mind and eyes hovered about that fateful green cloth. The Magic Skin
It was clearly a haven for thieves, pickpockets, scoundrels, and worse.
Countdown" was a smart, progressive refuge and a reliable rebuke to rival Fox News Channel pundits where Olbermann would chronicle the day's events, interview guests, deliver blistering commentaries in filigreed prose, needle hand-picked scoundrels (as in his Worst Persons fixture), and wrap the whole package with literate trappings and pop-culture wit (his readings from James Thurber short stories were a regular feature). Keith Olbermann: Current TV Will Be All News In Prime Time
I didn't like the scoundrel's phizog and I'll swear he didn't want to know for naught what time the London coach passed the George. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
Sad to say, it might take more than a mere honest election to remove the scoundrels.
He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.
o 'the man by baith shouthers ere the blastie (scoundrel) raught for 's knife. Richard Carvel — Volume 04
Or, you root for what those scoundrels ejaculate all those bullshits off their butts? Oh, Politics, My Foot! Off My Boot
Stuyvesant with a silver bullet; a black-looking scoundrel with a split lip, who used to brattle about the tavern at Corlaer's Hook, and who tumbled into East River while trying to lug an iron chest aboard of a suspicious craft that had stolen in to shore in a fog. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 09 : as to buried treasure
That's the conundrum of the modern skeptics movement: Intelligent Design theorists and deniers of global warming may very well be phonies and scoundrels, but no one is going to debunk them in the classic sense.
That did not stop all sorts of scoundrels from defaming us.
So many patriots are really rascals - you know, last refuge of the scoundrel - nationality is a dangerous thing.
David Burke, a creator of animated whacko content for TV, has assembled a few brilliant scoundrels and put up a site filled with juvenile humor and neat animation.
You know every rat, snitch and scoundrel on this island, and between them they know everything shady that transpires.
In this country and in USA there is a distinguished tradition of hagiolatry of these scoundrels.
`Though it's far more fun saying it behind your back, you old scoundrel ,' Gert boomed. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Confronted with ironclad evidence the scoundrel had to plead guilty.
He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’.
a politic old scoundrel
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
He said to me very candidly, I'm trying to translate that as close as I can, that before 1984 I thought he was a scoundrel, but after what happened in Blue Star I think now he's a sant.
An islander who manages to climb aboard Grief's schooner reports that Narii Herring of the Nuhiva, "an English Jew half-caste .... the nerviest and most conscienceless scoundrel in the Paumotus," tried to steal Parlay's pearls and that Parlay is up in a tree, Herring in another. “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
Most positively; but I always suspected that Fethertonge was a scoundrel, as his conduct in that very business with you was a proo -- hem, ahem. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
I haven't a thought that didn't come from my father; not a passion that didn't come from my mother; and now this last -- this about all human creatures being equal -- I got that from him, my fiancé -- whom I call a scoundrel for that reason! Plays by August Strindberg, Second series
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Of course, “Semi-Pro” was helmed by Kent Alterman, producer of such comedy classics as “Balls of Fury” and “Mr. Woodcock,” and written by Scot “School for Scoundrels” Armstrong, so such introspection is understandably shallow … even by mainstream Hollywood standards. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
This, then, was the secret of the unwillingness of the authorities to encourage the search for gold, and it is after all due to the fact that the search was ultimately successful beyond all precedent, that Australia has been for so many years relieved of the curse of convictism, and has ceased once and for all to be a depot for the scoundrelism of Britain -- "Hurrah for the bright red gold! Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
The man whom you call a blackguard -- I don't know why, for _he_ had not been destroying any defenceless person's property -- had had a scoundrelly trick played him, and I and some other fellows got up a subscription for him, as anyone with a spark of gentlemanly feeling would be inclined to do. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
' Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ', pronounced Samuel Johnson in 1775.
As in patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. Think Progress » Tea Party protesters reportedly spit on one lawmaker, call others ‘fa–ot’ and ‘ni–er.’
There was such a look of abject pain contorting her delicate features that he suddenly felt like an absolute scoundrel.
But there are others, scoundrels, who masquerade under the cloak of the blockader for their own selfish gains, and I call down the just wrath and vengeance of an embattled people, fighting in the justest of Causes, on these human vultures who bring in satins and laces when our men are dying for want of quinine, who load their boats with tea and wines when our heroes are writhing for lack of morphia. Gone with the Wind
In a sense we're learning that perhaps the Feds are getting tough on these corporate scoundrels.
`Though it's far more fun saying it behind your back, you old scoundrel ,' Gert boomed. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy
Lett me see ... oll your naughtee ways, drinking, and smoking and ... that you are a verree shameless rake-but he would give no particulars, was that nott mean of him? ... oah, and that you were a scoundrel, and told stretchers - and he said you were most cowardice - which I did nott believe, you are so famous -" "But you believed the rest, eh? THE NUMBERS
People were getting stuck into him, saying he was the cause of all our troubles, that he was a scoundrel and a monster.
The lastrefuge of a scoundrel is patriotism and former VP Dick Cheney's defense of torture is, in reality, Cheney wrapping himself, as his last refuge, aroundthe flag of patriotism: Allen L Roland Cheney Wrapping Himself Around The Flag Of Patriotism
I had, moreover, recently made a tragic acquaintance with the Greek Drama in the person of a scoundrel called Aeschylus, whose sickening lucubrations I was forced to learn by heart, and now and then to copy out, a hundred lines at a time, till I grew to detest him. Boycotted And Other Stories
But patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel - especially a scoundrel facing electoral decimation within months!

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