All 29 Uses of
scoundrel
in
War and Peace
- Disgrace the whole regiment because of one scoundrel?†
Chpt 2 *scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- "And what has become of that scoundrel?" he asked Denisov.†
Chpt 2
- The scoundrel is again at our heels!†
Chpt 2
- "This is a mob of scoundrels and not an army," he was thinking as he went up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by name.†
Chpt 2scoundrels = people without moral principles
- A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the screams kept repeating: "It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.†
Chpt 2scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- I'd shoot them, the scoundrels!†
Chpt 3scoundrels = people without moral principles
- And here, where at any moment the Emperor may see them....But no, these must be only a handful of scoundrels.†
Chpt 3
- you...scoundrel!†
Chpt 4scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- Scoundrels!†
Chpt 4scoundrels = people without moral principles
- "It can't be helped It happens to everyone!" said the son, with a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime.†
Chpt 4scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- I did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father—that again is for myself.†
Chpt 5
- In answer to Rostov's renewed questions, Denisov said, laughing, that he thought he remembered that some other fellow had got mixed up in it, but that it was all nonsense and rubbish, and he did not in the least fear any kind of trial, and that if those scoundrels dared attack him he would give them an answer that they would not easily forget.†
Chpt 5scoundrels = people without moral principles
- Then why was that scoundrel admitted?†
Chpt 8scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- There now, you turned Metivier out by the scruff of his neck because he is a Frenchman and a scoundrel, but our ladies crawl after him on their knees.†
Chpt 8
- And he's a scoundrel, a wretch—that's a fact!†
Chpt 8
- What a scoundrel!†
Chpt 8
- "You're a scoundrel and a blackguard, and I don't know what deprives me from the pleasure of smashing your head with this!" said Pierre, expressing himself so artificially because he was talking French.†
Chpt 8
- Does he think me a scoundrel, or an old fool who, without any reason, keeps his own daughter at a distance and attaches this Frenchwoman to himself?†
Chpt 9
- "Scoundrel, what are you doing?" shouted the innkeeper, rushing to the cook.†
Chpt 10
- "There will be less panic and less gossip," ran the broadsheet "but I will stake my life on it that scoundrel will not enter Moscow."†
Chpt 10
- The scoundrels!†
Chpt 10scoundrels = people without moral principles
- He found some scoundrel of a painter...†
Chpt 11scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- "Early tomorrow I shall go to his Serene Highness," he read ("Sirin Highness," said the tall fellow with a triumphant smile on his lips and a frown on his brow), "to consult with him to act, and to aid the army to exterminate these scoundrels.†
Chpt 11scoundrels = people without moral principles
- We will do, completely do, and undo these scoundrels.†
Chpt 11
- This man, Vereshchagin, is the scoundrel by whose doing Moscow is perishing.†
Chpt 11scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- However tempting it might be for the French to blame Rostopchin's ferocity and for Russians to blame the scoundrel Bonaparte, or later on to place an heroic torch in the hands of their own people, it is impossible not to see that there could be no such direct cause of the fire, for Moscow had to burn as every village, factory, or house must burn which is left by its owners and in which strangers are allowed to live and cook their porridge.†
Chpt 11
- Scoundrels!" yelled Kutuzov in a hoarse voice, waving his arms and reeling.†
Chpt 13scoundrels = people without moral principles
- And the scoundrel Rostopchin was punished by an order to burn down his houses.†
Chpt 13scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- "Such an insolent scoundrel!" he cried, growing hot again at the mere recollection of him.†
Chpt 15