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- noun Plural form of
scoundrel .
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Examples
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I am happy to see the word scoundrels make an appearence here.
Somali Pirates’ Suicides Confound Naval Forces | clusterflock 2009
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The Chinese merchants are frequently called scoundrels from their habit of overreaching when opportunity occurs.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Virtual Blight is online spam, scams, and "scoundrels" - and is a huge problem in the Web 2. x world due to the ease of publishing and "joining conversations".
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Virtual Blight is online spam, scams, and "scoundrels" - and is a huge problem in the Web 2. x world due to the ease of publishing and "joining conversations".
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Virtual Blight is online spam, scams, and "scoundrels" - and is a huge problem in the Web 2. x world due to the ease of publishing and "joining conversations".
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Virtual Blight is online spam, scams, and "scoundrels" - and is a huge problem in the Web 2. x world due to the ease of publishing and "joining conversations".
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_ Those Gentlemen, Sir _Harry_, you're pleas'd to term scoundrels, I honour; he that takes sanctuary in the _Fleet_, has an immediate place in my Heart; the Heroes of the _Mint_ are a formidable Body, magnanimously sowse ev'ry Fellow in a Ditch that dares to infringe their Liberties; he that's committed to _Newgate_ is in a fair way to Immortality; -- He that stands in the Pillory is exalted to a very high Station; the Observator is my very good Friend; and he that writes the Review a Person of a most incomparable Assurance.
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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I am happy to see the word scoundrels make an appearence here.
Somali Pirates’ Suicides Confound Naval Forces | clusterflock 2009
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But if bailing out the scoundrels is a stop-gap measure that keeps the poor and middle class from falling farther down, then I am all for it.
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You know there are three sorts of scoundrels in the world; naïve scoundrels, that is, convinced that their villany is the highest virtue; scoundrels who are ashamed, that is, ashamed of their own villany, though they fully intend to persevere with it; and lastly simple scoundrels, pure-bred scoundrels.
A Raw Youth 2003
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