scoundrelly
Example Sentences
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
Retorted Breitscheid with heat: "That is a scoundrelly thing to say!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing.
From Time Magazine Archive
She makes her scoundrelly Wall Street speculators and their women seem so real, and lets them speak for themselves at such length, that the reader has but one desire: to get away from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
