So I've retreated to the last refuge of a scoundrel, to the safety of fiction.
Lepper was appointed deputy speaker in October that year, but was removed from the post only a month later after he called Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz a "scoundrel", unworthy of being Poland's minister of foreign affairs.
(See "Sympathy for the Devil").. 6. You'll find it refreshing and ear-catching to refer to someone as a "scoundrel" instead of an "asshole".
Larry Clark remains both the poet of youthful torpor and something of a scoundrel — the mangy haplessness of dumb teen-agers is exactly what eroticizes them for him.
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo's La vida del buscón (1626; "The Life of a Scoundrel") is a masterpiece of the genre, in which the profound psychological depiction of a petty thief and swindler is underlain by a deep concern for moral values.
For all his bogeyman antics with the ball, however, Lee was never perceived as a scoundrel by fans of other teams during Australia's age of dominance.
He's a scoundrel and proud of it.
There's something ancient and real about it, and in a scoundrel's sort of way there's something honest, too.
Ken regards Galloway as a fiend, a menace, a scoundrel, a child of some eastern devil.
"The Samuel Johnson line is still the best and the truest: 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' " said Alan Ehrenhalt, the executive editor of Governing magazine.
