All 3 Uses of
scoundrel
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 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,
Chpt 25scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- You old scoundrel, I didn't, and you know I didn't.
Chpt 30
- After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.
Chpt 31 *scoundrels = people without moral principles