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scoundrel - use in sentences
Converse of object
- meet: On leaving the place, he brought me for supper to an inn where we met four scoundrels of his own stamp.
- call: Another tale tells of a scoundrel called Jack who one dark night tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree.
- see: The Emperor's curiosity got the better of him and he decided to see the two scoundrels.
- think: Some of us tried to catch it, thinking some scoundrel was playing a wicked trick upon us.
- face: Yes, we are not now facing scoundrels as good as Robert Boothby and Quentin Hogg.
Adjective modifier
- old: My house was built by one of the old scoundrels in 1865.
- little: He won't put his own neck on the line, he's a conniving little scoundrel, " Redfern adds.
- impudent: But directly afterward the impudent scoundrel who had taken hold of my arm came up and began to speak to the chamberlain in German.
- great: If we win we will be great heroes; but if we lose we will be the greatest scoundrels the country has ever produced.
- unconscionable: On 1st March, Gonzalez resigned describing Sprague as " an unconscionable scoundrel " Rudd retired from Congress in January, 1987.
- insolent: I drew myself up, and looking at him scornfully said, " You insolent scoundrel!
Noun used with modifier
- pop: Guy became internationally renowned after penning the smash hit Angels for pop scoundrel Robbie Williams in 1997.
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