Scapegrace Definition

skāpgrās
noun
A graceless, unprincipled fellow; scamp; rogue; rascal.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
scapegrace
Plural:
scapegraces

Origin of Scapegrace

  • From scape +"Ž grace

    From Wiktionary

  • scape grace

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

Scapegrace Sentence Examples

  • I do n't think he would approve of his scapegrace son fouling Council property.

  • Clesinger turned out a thankless scapegrace and George Sand was at last compelled to refuse to admit him to Nohant.

  • He is said to be very handsome and a terrible scapegrace.

  • It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.

  • He at once began love-making, and in spite of his ugliness succeeded in winning the heart of the lady to whom his colonel was attached; this led to such scandal that his father obtained a lettre de cachet, and the young scapegrace was imprisoned in the isle of Re.

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