Sentence examples for scoundrel for from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

Just after the shooting, Gaynor blamed "journalistic scoundrels" for stoking public sentiment against him and creating a climate for violence.

Rarick concludes that the members of the Donner party were neither heroes for surviving nor scoundrels for the manner in which they did so.

Forget democracy in the Middle East: our military brass is getting to test their toys; our oil companies have gained access to vast oil reserves; all those donors to the Republican campaigns (read: the military-industrial complex) are getting their money's worth; and the mess in Iraq is the gift that will keep on giving to these scoundrels for years to come.

Don't Bother Us with Soccer Skullduggery When We've Got Deflategate to Worry About Award — To FIFA, Sepp Blatter and assorted other scoundrels for soiling Pele's Beautiful Game.

Lillian Hellman's "Scoundrel Time," for its fictionalizing; Lester Cole's "Hollywood Red," for its mean-spiritedness; Ring Lardner Jr.'s "I'd Hate Myself in the Morning" for its reflectiveness; John Sanford's "Maggie" for its tenderness; and now Norma Barzman's "The Red and the Blacklist" for its colorfulness and candor.

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.

And so it is time again for the Augustus Melmotte Memorial Prizes, named for the scoundrel of questionable lineage at the center of "The Way We Live Now," by Anthony Trollope.

Moreau's lover is a former war hero, played by Maurice Ronet, who works for her scoundrel of a husband, an international arms profiteer.