All 3 Uses of
scoundrel
in
Treasure Island
- "Were you addressing me, sir?" says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"†
Chpt 1
- The sums are the scoundrel's share, and where he feared an ambiguity, you see he added something clearer.†
Chpt 6 *
- The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made fast and a man sitting in each, hard by where the river runs in.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(scoundrel) someone without moral principles