scamp
noun
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
had scamped
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past perfectof scamp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had moved into these new quarters while I was down in Warwickshire, and the man who put in the windows had scamped his job.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It had been of course necessary that each name should be witnessed;—but here the forger had scamped his work.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
This could not have been if he had scamped his lessons, could it?
From Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet by Thomas Champness
But she had scamped her work in modelling the close, narrow nostrils.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
In jumping over a low fence into a lane his one foot came down sideways on a large stone upon which some pauper had scamped his work, and the mischief was done.
From The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman
