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View synonyms for scapegrace

scapegrace

[ skeyp-greys ]

noun

  1. a complete rogue or rascal; a habitually unscrupulous person; scamp.


scapegrace

/ ˈskeɪpˌɡreɪs /

noun

  1. an idle mischievous person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of scapegrace1

First recorded in 1800–10; scape 2 + grace
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scapegrace1

C19: from scape ² + grace , alluding to a person who lacks God's grace
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Example Sentences

Now this younger son—I believe that he is in his twenty-first year at present—has been something of a scapegrace.

That scapegrace brother is the one of all that family most worthy your respect and mine.

His military service involved him in the wild pleasures and perils of scapegrace lads upon a foreign soil.

Yes they can, aunt, if she married a man whom she knew to be a scapegrace because he was very rich and an earl.

One winter a young scapegrace stole a sailboat from the wharf and put out to sea.

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