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Definition of Scoundrels
1. scoundrel [n] - See also: scoundrel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoundrels
Literary usage of Scoundrels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1900)
"... Gallery of scoundrels—Two Types of Murderers— Michael's Terror—Alice Arden—Her
Relation to some Women of Shakspere—Development of her Murderous ..."
2. Account of Arnold's Campaign Against Quebec: And of the Hardships and by John Joseph Henry (1877)
"... more especially as there are some scoundrels who, with impunity, open the
letters directed to the officers in our army, and I suppose they continue the ..."
3. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1862)
"Venus, as she swept toward the Venusberg, kicking out of the way all canting
scoundrels like the True Eckhart, who was true to nothing but dismal dog-in- ..."
4. Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"... Gallery of scoundrels—Two Types of Murderers—Michael's Terror—Alice Arden—Her
Relation to some Women of Shakspere—Development of her Murderous ..."
5. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... it began to be found that a sort of combination was growing up among the
scoundrels, having its ramifications extending upwards to some of the high ..."
6. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"615 Has c. thro' scoundrels ever since the flood EM iv. 212 ' An artful Manager,
that c, between MS i. 21 Crescent. But by the c. and the golden zone 1V. ..."
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