guttersnipe
Example Sentences
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By this juncture, the only thing we know for sure is that Ferrara, bless his guttersnipe soul, is still bracingly, adamantly himself.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
“What are we going to do,” the queen despaired, “about my sister’s guttersnipe life?”
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2021
A full throttle paean to New York, this prologue levitates on the velocity of its nameless narrator’s guttersnipe lyricism.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2020
Parliament's website lists examples of words that might be considered offensive, including "stoolpigeon", "blackguard", "coward", "git", "guttersnipe", "hooligan" and "rat".
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019
And Signet, guttersnipe, beach comber, and midnight assassin, was lodged in the "calaboose," built stoutly in a corner of the biggest and reddest of the Dutchman's godowns.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
