All 4 Uses
scoundrel
in
Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
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- I should say that for a good-looking, well-mannered, utterly unscrupulous young scoundrel, it would be hard to find his mate!†
Chpt 7 *scoundrel = someone without moral principles
- All the dollars were made for my little girl-and now she's gone, I'll spend my last cent to catch the damned scoundrel that did it!†
Chpt 7
- He hesitated for a minute, and then went on: 'I may as well tell you, Monsieur Poirot, that I regard my son-in-law as an unprincipled scoundrel, and that, by my advice, my daughter was on the eve of freeing herself from him by legal means-no difficult matter.†
Chpt 7
- But you understand that I cannot permit an innocent man to hang-even though he is an unpleasing scoundrel.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(scoundrel) someone without moral principles
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)