scapegrace
Example Sentences
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Young Andrew, by contrast, looked a bit of a scapegrace, tie askew.
“Not a bit, and you never will. You’ve grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.”
From Literature
Let her know that she has committed a crime that can land a person behind bars; but remember, too, that this scapegrace is a teenager for now, and your daughter for always.
From New York Times
The Porters were his difficult, scapegrace father’s family; the Coles were his mother’s rich and ambitious Indiana family.
From The New Yorker
Adam Gopnik, in this magazine, argued that the Starr report could be read “as a novel in the classic tradition,” with Bill Clinton as the scapegrace hero.
From The New Yorker
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