scoundrelly
Example Sentences
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The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives the white hand of the more bewitching of his two sweeties.
From Time Magazine Archive
She makes her scoundrelly Wall Street speculators and their women seem so real, and lets them speak for themselves at such length, that the reader has but one desire: to get away from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Retorted Breitscheid with heat: "That is a scoundrelly thing to say!"
From Time Magazine Archive
He addressed him with the proper degree of ferocity, telling him that he was a scoundrelly opportunist, a sybaritic barbarian, a disgrace to his upbringing and his ancestors, “AND”—and he paused in weighty emphasis—“a very...bad...dog!”
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
