scamp
noun
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
scampish
-
a word derived from
scamp.
Example Sentences
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The scampish Duchess has some scores to settle, and the melancholy Woolly mentions a cash inheritance locked in a safe in upstate New York.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
For the sitcom’s run from 1989 to ’93, Zack’s early adoption was a totem of his Los Angeles affluence and his wheeling-and-dealing scampish streak.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2012
Mr. Bosworth’s expansive, scampish personality was stamped everywhere, so much so that it was common to speak of a cult of personality at the school.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2011
Instead, it was Bryant Baker's striding figure of a woman whose skirts are blown backward in a prairie breeze, who carries a Bible in one hand, leads her scampish belligerent little boy with the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her scampish father will endeavour to relieve her.
From Shadows of the Stage by William Winter
