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
He cultivated a reputation as a beloved scamp who did what he wanted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
To the end, he treats Bankman-Fried as sort of an endearing scamp who got in over his head, essentially by an adorable habit of inattention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
“We were in charge of cooking scamp and squid and putting plenty of garlic in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
The long-lost scamp had become a frequent visitor once more, usually with an adorable troika of squirrel babies scampering behind, and another grown-up-sized squirrel, too.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
When it comes to naughty scamps, American literature has Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The films of the 1960s and ’70s that made Redford an icon mostly cleave into two categories: scamps and truth-seekers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
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
You see, marques," said the count, "that but for the vigilance of my police, you would have had the honor of being father-in-law to two of the greatest scamps in my viceroyalty.
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
But she had scamped her work in modelling the close, narrow nostrils.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
I am a good workman and, like every other really conscientious artisan, it distresses me to see a job blotched or scamped for the lack of a little skill or perseverance.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
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
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
And there is no scamping of the invisible details.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may depend upon it that there was no dishonesty in contractors, no scamping of the work in the yards where the Plymouth rovers were fitted out for sea.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude
As a result of all the hurrying and scamping, every now and again the men found that they had worked themselves out of a job.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
