Sentence examples for scoundrel as from inspiring English sources

The fact that this middle aged boy band impresario mentioned the he'd also gotten into the Chippendale's business too should perhaps have set off a few dozen red flags, but somehow I didn't have a real clue that he was not just a creep, but a true scoundrel as well.

How else did a scoundrel as arrogant as J. R. Ewing wind up on the cover of Time magazine in 1980?

A comic actor of great intelligence who cheerily forsakes subtlety here, Mr. Murray is often very amusing as this pointed Shavian cartoon of a grasping opportunist — "an old scoundrel," as Morell calls him with familial amity.

Indeed, one wonders at times why Keneally, the author of 21 works of fiction, including "Schindler's List" and "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith," did not simply write "American Scoundrel" as a novel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, as Samuel Johnson told us, but you also have to be fundamentally nuts to expect too much from the British drivers this weekend.

In the room dedicated to Kierkegaard's tormented romance with the teen-age Regine Olsen (his behavior as an "out and out scoundrel," as he put it, forced her to break their engagement, and she married someone else, but they continued to love each other), the illumination comes from a blue window.

In Colonial America, Crispus Attucks and others at the Boston Massacre in 1770 helped spark the American Revolution by lobbing epithets like "lobster scoundrels" as well as debris at red-coated British troops, only to find their volleys answered with musket balls, said Nicole Eustace, an assistant professor of history at New York University.

True, as I also wrote, there were some colorful scoundrels, as well as evangelicals who could be intolerant of those outside their theological tents and suburban megachurches.

Americanism has been the refuge of quite as many scoundrels as patriotism itself.

In another life he'd be Living Michael Caine's part in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as the bronzed, debonair and occasionally slippery Englishman on the Midi beat.

My own modest proposal is that the media stop referring to these scoundrels as "strategic consultants" or their other camouflage titles and call them what they are: influence peddlers.