Sample Sentences for
scoundrel
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  • Dmitri Karamazov is a scoundrel, but not a thief.  (source)
    scoundrel = someone without good moral principles
  • You old scoundrel, I didn't, and you know I didn't.  (source)
    scoundrel = someone without moral principles
  • "Watch your tongue, you scoundrel!" shouted a farmer, catching sight of Kit's flustered face.†  (source)
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  • OSKAR SCHINDLER HAS BEEN CALLED MANY names: scoundrel, womanizer, war profiteer, drunk.†  (source)
  • 'You are a set of deceitful scoundrels!' he said, turning to the others.†  (source)
  • He was restive all through it; he kept tally of the details of the prayer, unconsciously —for he was not listening, but he knew the ground of old, and the clergyman's regular route over it—and when a little trifle of new matter was interlarded, his ear detected it and his whole nature resented it; he considered additions unfair, and scoundrelly.†  (source)
  • She shouldn't be letting that scoundrel in her house.†  (source)
  • At last, she added, "You're right, they're all scoundrels—Dominicans, Yanquis, every last man."†  (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)
  • For once you have hoisted a scoundrel by the lapels, what are you to do with him?†  (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)
  • And besides, the companies were thieves, people said—had stolen all their franchises with the help of scoundrelly politicians!†  (source)
  • That scoundrel over there is Hippias, former tyrant of Athens.†  (source)
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