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scoundrelly
adjective as in false
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apostate
- base
- beguiling
- canting
- corrupt
- crooked
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- devious
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- falsehearted
- forsworn
- foul
- lying
- malevolent
- mean
- mythomaniac
- perfidious
- perjured
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
Example Sentences
The reader will, of course, infer that each of these pictures was a hit at some scoundrelly exploit of the day, the public knowledge of which gave effect to the caricature.
I'll look into Ciro's again presently, and get the good of the gold piece I had to waste on that scoundrelly waiter.
That question," returned Thorne, "strikes me as a little superfluous, considering that he's an utterly unscrupulous, scoundrelly vampire.
"The scoundrelly miners are still apparently as far from giving in as ever, and, unpleasant as it is to admit, they have the upper hand."
There is a will, and here it is in spite of all your diabolical tricks, with your scoundrelly hypnotism and secret holes, and the rest of it!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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