noun
definition
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
Examples of scoundrel in a Sentence
The scoundrel is again at our heels!
And he's a scoundrel, a wretch-- that's a fact!
This man, Vereshchagin, is the scoundrel by whose doing Moscow is perishing.
And the scoundrel Rostopchin was punished by an order to burn down his houses.
He found some scoundrel of a painter...
There now, you turned Metivier out by the scruff of his neck because he is a Frenchman and a scoundrel, but our ladies crawl after him on their knees.
He felt helpless and ineffective in dealing with this scoundrel who dared grope his wife in Dean's own house!
He said it was " the last refuge of the scoundrel ".
Some of us tried to catch it, thinking some scoundrel was playing a wicked trick upon us.
Ascertainable fact concerning Eustace is less picturesque, but enough is known to show that he was an adventurous and unscrupulous scoundrel.
The eldest son Giacomo was a riotous, dishonest young scoundrel, who cheated his own father and even attempted to murder him (1595).
Theodahad, notwithstanding a varnish of literary culture, was a coward and a scoundrel.
Another tale tells of a scoundrel called Jack who one dark night tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree.
He wo n't put his own neck on the line, he 's a conniving little scoundrel, Redfern adds.
He won't put his own neck on the line, he's a conniving little scoundrel, " Redfern adds.
But directly afterward the impudent scoundrel who had taken hold of my arm came up and began to speak to the chamberlain in German.
On 1st March, Gonzalez resigned describing Sprague as " an unconscionable scoundrel " Rudd retired from Congress in January, 1987.
I drew myself up, and looking at him scornfully said, " You insolent scoundrel!
Guy became internationally renowned after penning the smash hit Angels for pop scoundrel Robbie Williams in 1997.
It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.
Then why was that scoundrel admitted?
I drew myself up, and looking at him scornfully said, You insolent scoundrel !
He owed the scoundrel nothing.
Does he think me a scoundrel, or an old fool who, without any reason, keeps his own daughter at a distance and attaches this Frenchwoman to himself?
The influence he gained at length aroused the anxiety of the authorities, and in May 1881 a certain Abu Saud, a notorious scoundrel, was sent to Abba Island to bring the sheikh to Khartum.