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
Hopefully, Joshua watched “The Mandalorian” when he was young, because this little scamp is going to try his patience, or, you know, annihilate existence as we know it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
“Soon’s I get this scamp locked up, I’ll be back for that bowl of punch you promised, Mr. Lyte,’ he called cheerfully as he left.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
When it comes to naughty scamps, American literature has Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
Having appeared in four movies, numerous short films and a Universal Studios ride, among myriad other media, the subservient scamps return to playing second fiddle in “The Rise of Gru.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
Well, I always thought that I should hit on something good through these young scamps who come here, but this is a bigger thing than I ever dreamed of.
From The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered.
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
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
She was a born housewife, and particular about all her domain, but woe betide the servant who scamped her work in this room.
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
It is curious that builders in the thirteenth century, whose system of ornament was most profuse and thorough, often scamped the more important details of structure.
From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock
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
Steadily he worked at this, being at all times anxious to show good solid work, without any scamping.
From Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell
The scamping business was not confined to houses or properties of an inferior class: it was the general rule.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
