All 3 Uses of
scoundrel
in
Arrowsmith
- To demand that he be accurate in his statements, to quote Raymond Pearl's dictum: "As a matter of objective scientific fact, extremely little is known about why the mortality from tuberculosis has declined"—this was to be a scoundrel who really liked to befoul the pavements.†
Chpt 21scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- One of the papers had an innocent squib: Probably a certain amount of hypocrisy is inevitable in us sinful human critters, but when a public official tries to pose as a saint while indulging in every vice, and tries to cover up his gross ignorance and incompetence by pulling political wires, and makes a holy show of himself by not even doing a first-class job of wirepulling, then even the cussedest of us old scoundrels begins to holler for the meat-ax.†
Chpt 24scoundrels = people without moral principles
- Remember that old scoundrel Benoni Carr, that I introduced as a great pharmacologist at the medical banquet?†
Chpt 39 *scoundrel = someone without moral principles