Example Sentences

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The brains of the whole company were excited, and they revelled in every form of scampishness.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter

Strange to say, his poverty and his scampishness and his lies almost recommended him to her.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony