All 10 Uses of
scoundrel
in
Notes from the Underground
- Thus it would follow, as the result of acute consciousness, that one is not to blame in being a scoundrel; as though that were any consolation to the scoundrel once he has come to realise that he actually is a scoundrel.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Thus it would follow, as the result of acute consciousness, that one is not to blame in being a scoundrel; as though that were any consolation to the scoundrel once he has come to realise that he actually is a scoundrel.†
Chpt 1.2
- Thus it would follow, as the result of acute consciousness, that one is not to blame in being a scoundrel; as though that were any consolation to the scoundrel once he has come to realise that he actually is a scoundrel.†
Chpt 1.2
- I wondered, grinding my teeth as I strode along the street, "for a scoundrel, a pig like that Zverkov!†
Chpt 2.3
- With despair I pictured to myself how coldly and disdainfully that "scoundrel" Zverkov would meet me; with what dull-witted, invincible contempt the blockhead Trudolyubov would look at me; with what impudent rudeness the insect Ferfitchkin would snigger at me in order to curry favour with Zverkov; how completely Simonov would take it all in, and how he would despise me for the abjectness of my vanity and lack of spirit--and, worst of all, how paltry, UNLITERARY, commonplace it would…†
Chpt 2.3
- The scoundrels!†
Chpt 2.4
- Am I a scoundrel?†
Chpt 2.4
- "You are a scoundrel," a thought flashed through my mind, "if you laugh at this now."†
Chpt 2.5
- Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.†
Chpt 2.9
- When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed (the tirade was accompanied throughout by tears) her whole face worked convulsively.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(scoundrel) someone without moral principles