All 7 Uses of
scoundrel
in
Wuthering Heights
- She thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on me; and, not daring to attack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel.†
Chpt 2 *
- Scoundrel!†
Chpt 10
- There was another rapid glance at the house, and supposing himself unseen, the scoundrel had the impudence to embrace her.†
Chpt 11
- 'Well,' said the scoundrel, 'we'll not argue the subject now: but I have a fancy to try my hand at rearing a young one; so intimate to your master that I must supply the place of this with my own, if he attempt to remove it.†
Chpt 17
- I've got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me, and lower; for he takes a pride in his brutishness.†
Chpt 21
- 'I know how to chastise children, you see,' said the scoundrel, grimly, as he stooped to repossess himself of the key, which had dropped to the floor.†
Chpt 27
- 'Your master is a true scoundrel!'†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(scoundrel) someone without moral principles