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scoundrel
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Notes from the Underground
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- 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 *scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- 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 all be.†
Chpt 2.3
- The scoundrels!†
Chpt 2.4scoundrels = people without moral principles
- Am I a scoundrel?†
Chpt 2.4scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- "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
Definitions:
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(1)
(scoundrel) someone without moral principles
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)