All 5 Uses of
scoundrel
in
Bleak House
- He is the most intolerable scoundrel on the face of the earth.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- "I have not the slightest doubt that the scoundrel has passed his whole existence in misdirecting travellers!" returned the other.†
Chpt 7-9
- By my soul, the countenance of that fellow when he was a boy was the blackest image of perfidy, cowardice, and cruelty ever set up as a scarecrow in a field of scoundrels.†
Chpt 7-9
- I play upon that execrable scoundrel with a fire-engine until the breath is nearly driven out of his body.†
Chpt 7-9
- With two ladies in the coach, this scoundrel has deliberately delayed his arrival six and twenty minutes.†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(scoundrel) someone without moral principles