Scoundrel Definition

skoundrəl
scoundrels
noun
scoundrels
A villain; a rogue.
American Heritage
A mean, immoral, or wicked person; rascal.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
scoundrel
Plural:
scoundrels

Origin of Scoundrel

  • Possibly related to northern English or Scottish scunner: "to shrink back in fear or loathing" (Encyclopædia Britannica 1911).

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Scoundrel Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

SSCSCO

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LELREL

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