Etymology
Origin of scoundrelly
Example Sentences
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The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing.
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Fry's titled chatelaine is a sort of spiritual Lady Bountiful who hides in her house a scoundrelly deserter who was once her son-in-law.
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She makes her scoundrelly Wall Street speculators and their women seem so real, and lets them speak for themselves at such length, that the reader has but one desire: to get away from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
He addressed him with the proper degree of ferocity, telling him that he was a scoundrelly opportunist, a sybaritic barbarian, a disgrace to his upbringing and his ancestors, “AND”—and he paused in weighty emphasis—“a very...bad...dog!”
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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