Sentence examples for a scoundrel for from inspiring English sources

State lottery officials said the winner was neither the pool of night-shift workers who had whiffed riches, nor the innocent nurse's aide they had berated as a scoundrel for trying to cheat them.

State lottery officials said the mysterious winner was neither the pool of night-shift workers who had whiffed riches, nor the innocent nurse's aide they had berated as a scoundrel for trying to cheat them out of their shares.

As he wrote in fictional form in "A Perfect Spy," he grew up with a mother absent and a father who was a scoundrel jailed for fraud.

But for a scoundrel it will bode ill fortune.

I'm not sure there's much hope for a scoundrel like me".

But none of those considerations can change the fact that Marc Rich is a scoundrel, a terrible choice for a pardon.

There are many questions unanswered in the wake of the sentence to jail of Bernie Madoff for 150 years, an appropriate eternity for such a scoundrel.

Virgil's hell includes special compartments for infants and suicides and specific punishments for specific crimes, but the ordinary dead, who merit neither a hero's reward nor a scoundrel's punishment, remain unaccounted for.

He calls Trump a "scoundrel madman" created by and for the medium, "an inspired, mercurial handler of TV" who "can go from The Apprentice to being the apprentice's sorcerer in one blithe insult".

Brief and elegant vignettes, they are written with sharp humour and pinpoint observation – meet the "fine scoundrel", for example, his face "rather Dickensian in concept".

To the Corbynite left, it demonstrates his perfidy, for only an accommodating scoundrel — a thinly disguised Tory, and a disgrace to the socialist faith — would be happy to shape and shrink his opinions until they fitted the capitalist mold.