All 16 Uses of
scoundrel
in
Gone with the Wind
- For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?†
Chpt 1.2 *
- You should be ashamed of yourself, comparing a fine man like Ashley Wilkes to a scoundrel like Captain Butler!†
Chpt 2.12
- But there are other 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.†
Chpt 2.13
- But when we got to Richmond, those two scoundrels," indicating the Fontaines, "decided that as they were shaving their beards, mine should come off too.†
Chpt 2.15
- Isn't it enough that they've licked us and beggared us without turning loose scoundrels on us?†
Chpt 4.31
- I ain't goin' to take their oath even if I don't never vote again— But scum like that Hilton feller, he can vote, and scoundrels like Jonas Wilkerson and pore whites like the Slatterys and no-counts like the MacIntoshes, they can vote.†
Chpt 4.31
- The Yankees and the scoundrels teamed up with them have got me where they want me.†
Chpt 4.32
- Damn their black souls, they believe anything those scoundrels tell them and forget every living thing we've done for them.†
Chpt 4.37
- What can we do with devils who'd hang a nice boy like Tony just for killing a drunken buck and a scoundrelly Scallawag to protect his women folks?†
Chpt 4.37
- And because he was a gentleman and himself trustworthy, he trusted every scoundrel who came along and several times would have lost money for her if she had not tactfully intervened.†
Chpt 4.41
- "You are a rare scoundrel!" she cried furiously to Johnnie as he stood at the wheel, his hat pushed back from his lowering brow.†
Chpt 4.44
- Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.†
Chpt 4.46
- The old man had remarked that she must not value his hide very much if she did not feel some gratitude to Rhett Butler, even if the man was a Scallawag and a scoundrel.†
Chpt 4.47
- And Father Merriwether intends to call and he talks like he was in his dotage and says he's grateful to that scoundrel, even if I'm not.†
Chpt 5.49
- We are both scoundrels, Scarlett, and nothing is beyond us when we want something.†
Chpt 5.54
- I shouldn't have given the old scoundrel shelter.†
Chpt 5.55
Definition:
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(scoundrel) someone without moral principles