scoundrelly

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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

Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing.

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Retorted Breitscheid with heat: "That is a scoundrelly thing to say!"

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Fry's titled chatelaine is a sort of spiritual Lady Bountiful who hides in her house a scoundrelly deserter who was once her son-in-law.

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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