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
Still in his younger scamp days, George W. Bush lifted his pant leg to show off his cowboy boots and proudly declared that he was the black sheep of the family.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
On the flat, straight highways of middle America, you’ll often see a Chevy go by with a sticker in the window portraying a cartoon scamp tinkling on a Ford logo — or vice versa.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
“We were in charge of cooking scamp and squid and putting plenty of garlic in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
Naturally, the lady’s unexpected presence in the tree had attracted the squirrel’s attention, and being nearly tame, the hungry scamp had come right up to her to beg for treats.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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
"There are men doing penal servitude who aren't half such mean, sneaking scamps as you are--and plenty of them."
From A Duel by Richard Marsh
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
Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monday, May 17th.—In theory the business of a Second Chamber is to revise calmly and dispassionately the legislation which has been scamped by the First.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various
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
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
"That is enough, get to the tunnel scare and scamping."
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman
Even the cathedral window looming in the background has its exquisite tracery carefully drawn, no scamping the work because it was only the background of an incomplete sketch.
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann
