scoundrelly

Example Sentences

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The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fry's titled chatelaine is a sort of spiritual Lady Bountiful who hides in her house a scoundrelly deserter who was once her son-in-law.

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Retorted Breitscheid with heat: "That is a scoundrelly thing to say!"

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Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man."

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He addressed him with the proper degree of ferocity, telling him that he was a scoundrelly opportunist, a sybaritic barbarian, a disgrace to his upbringing and his ancestors, “AND”—and he paused in weighty emphasis—“a very...bad...dog!”

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford