scamp
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Without pressing the matter, the script by Mr. Johnson, Todd Bartels, Lou Howe and Matthew Miller illustrates how vital it is for a young scamp to get corrected by tough, pitiless direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But for now he is a jovial Irish scamp, with the merest hint of a dark streak; where Sherlock comes from money, James, as he’s called here, is at school on a scholarship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
He cultivated a reputation as a beloved scamp who did what he wanted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
Throughout his career, he delighted in being a newsroom scamp.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
"Go to your room, you scamp you," Aunt Anne said, shaking him.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Saturday was a night of four headliners at Glastonbury, with fans facing the cruel choice between pop queen Charli XCX, rock legend Neil Young, disco scamps Scissor Sisters and Doechii - rap's hottest new voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
Nearly as ripe for the Broadway-musical treatment are the loveable scamps who ran heavily indebted cities in the 19th century.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2023
A brigade of social media scamps soon offered an observation about Commander.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
When country characters do scheme, it’s often for purposes of comedy or in response to those foolish enough to take them for fools; they’re scamps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2019
Somebody, of course, hired the two scamps that took it to do the trick——” “Oh, were there two?” asked Neale, who had been running the car slowly again in order to listen.
From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Grace Brooks Hill
Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Book reviews miss the irascible authority of Edmund Wilson, though on occasion the scamped book section is rescued by John Updike or V.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Before you begin to tell me how you scamped it, give me a hint or two about piling, and say what you have learned from experience."
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman
It is on solid foundations that lie deep in the earth, and that avoid all reproach of being scamped or superficial work, that the durability of a structure depends.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
But he has played up trivialities while scamping essentials: Becket's great career as Chancellor is passed over; his clashes with Henry, on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, go unused.
From Time Magazine Archive
While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is no scamping of the invisible details.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Twemlow began to make the introductions—a long and tedious process, which she performed relentlessly, without haste and without scamping her work.
From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
That’s not scamping it, all things considered, is it?”
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
