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  • OSKAR SCHINDLER HAS BEEN CALLED MANY names: scoundrel, womanizer, war profiteer, drunk.†   (source)
  • "Watch your tongue, you scoundrel!" shouted a farmer, catching sight of Kit's flustered face.†   (source)
  • Is this where you tell me that I'm a scoundrel, and I say that I think you like me because I'm a scoundrel?†   (source)
  • She shouldn't be letting that scoundrel in her house.†   (source)
  • He wasn't any different from the rest of those scoundrels you see on TV today except he preached in synagogues and he wasn't so smooth-talkin'.†   (source)
  • The man's a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • To put it bluntly: a scoundrel will still be a scoundrel behind barbed wire.†   (source)
  • Let me go, you scoundrel!†   (source)
  • At last, she added, "You're right, they're all scoundrels—Dominicans, Yanquis, every last man."†   (source)
  • Do I sound like a scoundrel?†   (source)
  • In vain Clara explained to her that her guests were not interested in ashtrays, primarily because none of them smoked; but Nana had already made up her mind that they were all, with the exception of the three enchanting Mora sisters, a bunch of evangelical scoundrels.†   (source)
  • "You scoundrel!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • Well, since you already consider me a scoundrel, I might as well enjoy some of theseliberties.†   (source)
  • Part legend, part scoundrel, he was a man she never thought she would meet, and here he was chatting with her (in her office!)†   (source)
  • "It's a scoundrel named Jake Spoon," Dish said.†   (source)
  • But I have heard that that scoundrel El-ahrairah means to come and steal them if he can.†   (source)
  • But, like so many "black" films of this era, the movie is full of code about dilemmas du jour over race and class, with Martin's down-to-earth, devil-may-care, ghetto scoundrel getting the stamp of black authenticity to highlight how Lynn Whitfield, with her college degrees, corporate status, flawless diction, and foolish desire for monogamous love, has really succeeded only in losing touch with her true black soul.†   (source)
  • Now, if you'd thrown your drink in my face and called me a scoundrel ....†   (source)
  • A southern dialect word, a corruption, a slur, an invective, from tizzo, he assumed, a firebrand or smoldering coal, and broadened to human dimensions in tizzone d'inferno, scoundrel, villain.†   (source)
  • You an' Shade Buckheath—you p'ar o' scoundrels—give me back my silver specimens!†   (source)
  • "The rebels have the impudence to fit out privateers," wrote an indignant British officer, snug in his quarters, but the day would come, he knew, when "we shall give the scoundrels a hearty thrashing and put an end to this business.†   (source)
  • 'You are a set of deceitful scoundrels!' he said, turning to the others.†   (source)
  • Oh, my wife would kill for those bookcases, you scoundrels!†   (source)
  • The companions looked up as the nightmare ship glided by, its deck populated with the worst sort of brigands and scoundrels—including Wendigo—all too surprised that the ship was still there to sling spears and fire arrows.†   (source)
  • There's a smooth, oily scoundrel running down the middle of the wide gray street throwing stones-He's the one!†   (source)
  • The incidents my nephew described are called diversionary tactics employed to create the illusion that the scoundrels are victims.†   (source)
  • Oh, Hoyt.... I knew my mother thought the marriage was a scandal, but this was the first I guessed that she saw Miss Love as a scoundrel, a villain, out to steal hers and Aunt Loma's inheritance.†   (source)
  • Just remember that the founder of that family was Nat Taggart, the most notoriously anti-social scoundrel that ever lived, who bled the country white to squeeze a fortune for himself.†   (source)
  • I say only way to make those scoundrels know we mean business is stop shipments right now!†   (source)
  • Many fortune hunters or hiding scoundrels continued to filter into the region, but an equal number were killed or grew disenchanted with the brutal conditions and returned to the more hospitable south.†   (source)
  • Miss McCleethy goes into a large dimly lit room that houses all sorts of exhibitions—statues, exotic costumes, magic apparatus, a placard for the Wolfson brothers with the word scoundrels painted across it.†   (source)
  • When I spoke about fighting Batista, he said it was useless, that the scoundrel is under the protection of Changó, god of fire and lightning.†   (source)
  • A former congressman yells something far more pointed: "Hang the scoundrel!"†   (source)
  • Truth is, an honest man like Andrew Jackson just wasn't no match for a couple of scoundrels like Bill Harrison and Hooch Palmer.†   (source)
  • The scoundrel's left fingerprints!†   (source)
  • I would have been a far better choice than the ten scoundrels they selected in my place, of that I can assure you.†   (source)
  • When the going got tough, patriotism became the last refuge not of the scoundrel but of the genuinely committed soldier.†   (source)
  • Why, the old scoundrel!†   (source)
  • What I knew about Bilbo was not even particularly redeeming—he would remain a first-class scoundrel until the tumor strangled off his breath or its excrescence flooded through the portals of his brain—but it had at least allowed me to perceive human bones and dimensions through the papier-maché stock villain from Dixie.†   (source)
  • An engineer who worked at the Shell refinery at Corio said that he had managed to buy a little petrol on the black market in Fitzroy but very properly refused to name the scoundrel who had sold it.†   (source)
  • The Braggs were scoundrels, all of them.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Shortley had heard that she had married him when she was thirty and he was seventy-five, thinking she would be rich as soon as he died, but the old man was a scoundrel and when his estate was settled, they found he didn't have a nickel.†   (source)
  • "Open up the gates, you scoundrels," yelled voices in the queue.†   (source)
  • Just like he wants us to, scoundrel.†   (source)
  • Nine out of twenty-two Democratic papers in the state are unbounded in vilifying him with such epithets as traitor, apostate, scoundrel, barn burner, abolitionist and free-soiler ....I am afraid Benton will be defeated.†   (source)
  • "I don't care what the scoundrels call themselves," T'sung H'sai roared.†   (source)
  • You old scoundrel, I didn't, and you know I didn't.   (source)
    scoundrel = someone without moral principles
  • Dmitri Karamazov is a scoundrel, but not a thief.   (source)
    scoundrel = someone without good moral principles
  • I warn you as a friend, and an honest one that wants to protect you and keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn your backs on that scoundrel and have nothing to do with him,   (source)
    scoundrel = someone without moral principles
  • Perhaps her scoundrel of a husband is a brute as well as a sot.†   (source)
  • The scoundrel should be exposed, and made to pay for his crime.†   (source)
  • "Besides," Thor added, "I don't need to search for the scoundrel.†   (source)
  • Then answer me one question: is Wennerström a scoundrel or isn't he?†   (source)
  • All them thieving scoundrels have been driven off.†   (source)
  • Keeping one eye on the scoundrel, the Count glanced at his daughter with the other.†   (source)
  • It's a fine word, scoundrel; one of the golden oldies.†   (source)
  • He's one of the blackest scoundrels I've ever dealt with.†   (source)
  • Thieves and scoundrels prowled the streets.†   (source)
  • Scoundrels one and all, you'd cheat a hero of his ...of his ...†   (source)
  • Sergeant Zim wasn't even mussed and somehow the scoundrel had managed to shave.†   (source)
  • That scoundrel over there is Hippias, former tyrant of Athens.†   (source)
  • The parrot answered in an identical voice: "You're even more of a scoundrel, Doctor.†   (source)
  • "Scoundrel!" he cried out, thumping me broadly on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • He is being labeled a scoundrel and a coward for shooting Lincoln in the back.†   (source)
  • Scoundrel pursed lips as if considering totally new idea.†   (source)
  • You're a liar and a fat-mouthed scoundrel.†   (source)
  • "I am not such a scoundrel as to sell grub," he said.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Dee Boot, the scoundrel," the clerk said.†   (source)
  • You are a scoundrel and a disgrace even to your whimpering breed.†   (source)
  • If they will rob an historian of his sources, there is no telling what the scoundrels will do.†   (source)
  • I needed to tell somebody and Rufo was the sort of scoundrel I could trust.†   (source)
  • Scoundrels are predictable, but you're a man of honor and that frightens me.†   (source)
  • You want that old scoundrel?†   (source)
  • "You scoundrel," says Snowman out loud.†   (source)
  • This scoundrel Hades is no good.†   (source)
  • He was such a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • He is shown the dining room, the library, the winter kitchen; the summer kitchen, the stable and loft, "where that scoundrel McDermott slept at night."†   (source)
  • But to ensure a celestial balance and the equilibrium of the cosmos, this moustachioed scoundrel in evening clothes was sure to remember every single second for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • Inge, make sure our young scoundrels are dressed appropriately for the party, and send some of the staff to help me with this gold.†   (source)
  • For several years the magazine has survived on the image that has been successfully marketed by the editors—young reporters who undertake investigative journalism and expose the scoundrels of the business world.†   (source)
  • So I fear that your Dr. Jordan is either credulous to an infantile degree, or himself a great scoundrel; and that, should he have composed his self-styled "report," it would not have been worth the paper it was written on.†   (source)
  • "Scoundrel," muttered the other man.†   (source)
  • For the three minutes it took the Count to travel from a delightful conversation at the concierge's desk to the ballroom, where he had grabbed a scoundrel by the lapels, had also passed in the blink of an eye.†   (source)
  • And why would Magnus Chase threaten to leave ...unless these scoundrels are planning to steal my treasure?†   (source)
  • If the Major were dead, she would not be betraying her marriage vows; but as it is...He tells her the Major has treated her abominably, and is a cad, a scoundrel, a dog, and deserves even worse from her.†   (source)
  • You worthless scoundrels!†   (source)
  • There are rogues and scoundrels everywhere, but they use a different sort of language to excuse themselves; and there they pay a great lip service to democracy, just as here they rant on about the right order of society, and loyalty to the Queen; though the poor man is poor on every shore.†   (source)
  • I wished Nancy no harm, and did not want her cast out, a waif on the common highway and a prey to wandering scoundrels; but all the same it would not be fair and just that she should end up a respectable married lady with a ring on her finger, and rich into the bargain.†   (source)
  • But most of the looking about he did was at the bottom of a glass, and there were always those willing to help him look; but when he was drunk he would become angry and begin cursing the Irish, and abusing them as a pack of low useless thieving scoundrels, and there would be a fight.†   (source)
  • That Callender was a malicious scoundrel was undeniable and more than enough for many people to dismiss his charges out of hand.†   (source)
  • "You scoundrel," she said.†   (source)
  • I sympathize with them in this match—always cast as the scoundrels, the villains, the bullies, as they compete against our poor, innocent First Years.... It's not fair, is it?†   (source)
  • "You scoundrel," she said again.†   (source)
  • Ah,said Glaedr,often we despised the need for secrecy, but if ever the Eldunari had become common knowledge, every low-minded scoundrel in the land would have attempted to steal one, and eventually some would have achieved their goal.†   (source)
  • It made Measure sick, to think things had got to the point where they'd call on that likker-dealing scoundrel to come north.†   (source)
  • You feel disarmed when you come up against a scoundrel: you believe that evil is bound to win, since the moral is the impotent, the impractical.†   (source)
  • What a scoundrel that man was!†   (source)
  • Writing earlier to the Earl of Huntingdon, the handsome Lord Rawdon had expressed the hope that "we shall soon have done with these [American] scoundrels, for one only dirties one's fingers by meddling with them.†   (source)
  • It stands on the vest of every fat, pig like figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook, a grafter, a scoundrel-as the one sure-fire brand of evil.†   (source)
  • 11, was a sniveling little neurotic who wrote cheap little plays into which, as a social message, he inserted cowardly little obscenities to the effect that all businessmen were scoundrels.†   (source)
  • When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it's picked up by scoundrels-and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.†   (source)
  • You are an Irishman and a scoundrel, Mr. McLean, and I cannot expect you to master the sweep and scope of an alien and enemy culture.†   (source)
  • They are scoundrels of the first order.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I would have succeeded if it hadn't been for a young scoundrel who wheedled himself into my confidence.†   (source)
  • I don't think with Snowdie even two other names meant she had changed yet, not towards King, that scoundrel.†   (source)
  • Yes, you sweet old scoundrel.†   (source)
  • Even that legendary scoundrel William the Conqueror had a second nickname: "the Great Builder."†   (source)
  • For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?†   (source)
  • The miserable old scoundrel, he thought.†   (source)
  • Oh no, we were talking about that scoundrel Hoover.†   (source)
  • It's like she was in two parts, and one of them knows that he is a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop knew that most of the priests of Peru were scoundrels.†   (source)
  • "Chloroform the scoundrel," he roars madly.†   (source)
  • Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.†   (source)
  • You had rather that she knew him to be a scoundrel than a fool: is that it?†   (source)
  • Leave it to the practised scoundrel and run away to bed.†   (source)
  • The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • You've never been enough of a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • Go on, you scoundrel!" said Colonel Pettigrew.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't have given the old scoundrel shelter.†   (source)
  • The Yankees and the scoundrels teamed up with them have got me where they want me.†   (source)
  • We are both scoundrels, Scarlett, and nothing is beyond us when we want something.†   (source)
  • Isn't it enough that they've licked us and beggared us without turning loose scoundrels on us?†   (source)
  • I should say that for a good-looking, well-mannered, utterly unscrupulous young scoundrel, it would be hard to find his mate!†   (source)
  • Then when her ready cash was gone, had come Who Flung to denounce his predecessor as a scoundrel and took up around the house himself.†   (source)
  • Then I become gentle and humble—to your great astonishment—because I'm the worst scoundrel living.†   (source)
  • I wish to God I could give you some help-but the plain fact is I know nothing-nothing at all that can help you to the dastardly scoundrel who did this.†   (source)
  • One Sunday morning Napoleon appeared in the barn and explained that he had never at any time contemplated selling the pile of timber to Frederick; he considered it beneath his dignity, he said, to have dealings with scoundrels of that description.†   (source)
  • Now do you know, Mr. de Villiers, that this self-same scoundrel.... — They should enforce the pass laws, Jackson.†   (source)
  • In the end, then, it had had to be managed with the Old Lord's agent, an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them in passing.†   (source)
  • Look at dat great big ole scoundrel-beast up dere at Hall's fillin' station—uh great big old scoundrel.†   (source)
  • But you understand that I cannot permit an innocent man to hang-even though he is an unpleasing scoundrel.†   (source)
  • That scoundrel....'†   (source)
  • He hesitated for a minute, and then went on: 'I may as well tell you, Monsieur Poirot, that I regard my son-in-law as an unprincipled scoundrel, and that, by my advice, my daughter was on the eve of freeing herself from him by legal means-no difficult matter.†   (source)
  • The squatting men along the wall look at her still and placid face and they think as Armstid thought and as Varner thinks: that she is thinking of a scoundrel who deserted her in trouble and who they believe that she will never see again, save his coattails perhaps already boardflat with running.†   (source)
  • She was sorry about the root-doctor because she feared that Joe was depending on the scoundrel to make him well when what he needed was a doctor, and a good one.†   (source)
  • I don't mind handing you that, because I don't know which is worse: to be a great scoundrel or a gigantic fool.†   (source)
  • Cr-unch, Cr-unch, Cr-unch,"—they were all exploded with laughter as his face assumed an expression of insane gluttony, and as he continued, in a slow, whining voice intended to represent the speech of the late Major: " 'Eliza, if you don't mind I'll have some more of that chicken,' when the old scoundrel had shovelled it down his throat so fast we had to carry him away from the table."†   (source)
  • And I'll ask you what will she be getting from the white women in Jefferson about the time that baby is due, when here she ain't been in Jefferson but a week and already she can't talk to a woman ten minutes before that woman knows she ain't married yet, and as long as that durn scoundrel stays above ground where she can hear of him now and then, she ain't going to be married.†   (source)
  • And all the details of money—the value of the estate usurped by the scoundrelly guardian and his caddish son, he feasted upon, reckoning up the amount of income, if it were not given, or if it were, dividing the annual sum into monthly and weekly portions, and dreaming on its purchasing power.†   (source)
  • "You are a rare scoundrel!" she cried furiously to Johnnie as he stood at the wheel, his hat pushed back from his lowering brow.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • You should be ashamed of yourself, comparing a fine man like Ashley Wilkes to a scoundrel like Captain Butler!†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Damn their black souls, they believe anything those scoundrels tell them and forget every living thing we've done for them.†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • But that scoundrel of a director forbade me, threatened me with death.†   (source)
  • The only drawback is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel.†   (source)
  • "My father was a scoundrel then?" cried the lad, clenching his fists.†   (source)
  • You young scoundrel, Algy, you must get out of this place as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • 'She's the wife of a scoundrel,' I answered.†   (source)
  • [rising with his fists clenched] Who is the scoundrel†   (source)
  • In other words, some men are honest and some are scoundrels.†   (source)
  • Algy, you young scoundrel, you will have to treat me with more respect in the future.†   (source)
  • I have no money to help prosecute a scoundrel like that.†   (source)
  • "Hamilton, you damn ole scoundrel," he roared, "I'll 'scharge you for impudence, you see 'f I don't!†   (source)
  • He sympathised deeply with the defenceless girl, at the mercy of that "mean, cowardly scoundrel."†   (source)
  • Then you don't think him a scoundrel, after all?†   (source)
  • It can't be anybody else than the scoundrel who has betrayed her.†   (source)
  • Made it all out of hogs, too, damn ole scoundrel.†   (source)
  • "The old scoundrel said the case was filled," he said.†   (source)
  • The lying scoundrel told me he'd be sure to pay me a hundred last month.†   (source)
  • 'What's your name, you hardened scoundrel?' demanded Mr. Fang.†   (source)
  • I am sorry because I believe there is contamination in such a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • The thing has happened—the scoundrel has backed out!†   (source)
  • This man might, after all, be a greater scoundrel than you have thought possible.†   (source)
  • If I catch the scoundrel hiding,
    He shall not leave alive, I vow.†   (source)
  • I'll never fight any man again, only when he behaves like a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • A scoundrel to play a poor wife such tricks.†   (source)
  • Disgrace the whole regiment because of one scoundrel?†   (source)
  • He is the most intolerable scoundrel on the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • "Oh, the scoundrels!" cried Passepartout, who could not repress his indignation.†   (source)
  • You infernal scoundrel, how dare you tell ME that?†   (source)
  • And the scoundrel Rostopchin was punished by an order to burn down his houses.†   (source)
  • I tell you you're a coward and a scoundrel, and I despise you.†   (source)
  • A thief steals and knows he is a scoundrel, but I've heard of a gentleman who broke open the mail.†   (source)
  • It must be allowed that Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel!†   (source)
  • Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:— "The scoundrel!†   (source)
  • "Scoundrel, infamous scoundrel!" howled Milady.†   (source)
  • [Rallying her jocularly] So you don't think me such a scoundrel now you come to think it over†   (source)
  • He's persecuted by the police, of course, because he's not a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • Have you brought information about the scoundrels as cut my trees?†   (source)
  • "It was a regular plan between that scoundrel and her," he said.†   (source)
  • Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.†   (source)
  • So in that case I should be a scoundrel, but not a thief, you may say what you like, not a thief!†   (source)
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