scamp
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Without pressing the matter, the script by Mr. Johnson, Todd Bartels, Lou Howe and Matthew Miller illustrates how vital it is for a young scamp to get corrected by tough, pitiless direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Hopefully, Joshua watched “The Mandalorian” when he was young, because this little scamp is going to try his patience, or, you know, annihilate existence as we know it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Marlon might be the biggest scamp we’ve seen on this show since, well … Big?
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
On the flat, straight highways of middle America, you’ll often see a Chevy go by with a sticker in the window portraying a cartoon scamp tinkling on a Ford logo — or vice versa.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
Had no future, was a scamp, possibly even a scoundrel.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Saturday was a night of four headliners at Glastonbury, with fans facing the cruel choice between pop queen Charli XCX, rock legend Neil Young, disco scamps Scissor Sisters and Doechii - rap's hottest new voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
Nearly as ripe for the Broadway-musical treatment are the loveable scamps who ran heavily indebted cities in the 19th century.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2023
Having appeared in four movies, numerous short films and a Universal Studios ride, among myriad other media, the subservient scamps return to playing second fiddle in “The Rise of Gru.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
One bird fell to the ground, and after the scamps scattered, Kentigern stroked its feathers and prayed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
“Well, ’pon my soul, Mag, they’re a pair of scamps, and once I’ve got my little Cynthy, hang me if I don’t cut them.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
Book reviews miss the irascible authority of Edmund Wilson, though on occasion the scamped book section is rescued by John Updike or V.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of the work, however, is poor and scamped; it bears, in fact, marks of the feverish haste with which it was carried through.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The guild laws against adulteration, scamped work, and the like, were sometimes ferocious in their severity.
From German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax
But he has played up trivialities while scamping essentials: Becket's great career as Chancellor is passed over; his clashes with Henry, on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, go unused.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is no scamping of the invisible details.
From Time Magazine Archive
While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever other causes there were, there could be no doubt that the hurrying and scamping was a very real one.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Even the cathedral window looming in the background has its exquisite tracery carefully drawn, no scamping the work because it was only the background of an incomplete sketch.
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann
