Sentence examples for scoundrel named from inspiring English sources

But an almost identical scandal swept the fund business in the mid-1960's - except that, back then, the role of the hedge fund was played by an impish scoundrel named Bernie Cornfeld.

It's fascinating to hear, for example, how an addict and charming scoundrel named Herbert Huncke -- the man who became a key emissary from the drug demimonde for Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac -- had himself been drawn to heroin by tales of Shanghai opium dens, "posh layouts with cushions on the floor and naked or half-naked men and women laying about," as he tells Torgoff.

The thefts involved the chairman and vice chairman of Alliance Bank absconding with $1.2 billion and the chairman of BTA, a world-class scoundrel named Mukhtar Ablyazov, stealing a whopping $14 billion, then fleeing to the West.

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.

Tweed Courthouse: only in New York would a municipal building be named after the city's greatest scoundrel.

A young man named Nicholas St. North is a thief and a scoundrel who becomes a hero when the town of Santoff Claussen is threatened by the Nightmare King.

The regulations that govern office and school construction make it unlikely, preservationists say, that the mayor will achieve his goal of recasting the courthouse, named after one of New York's most illustrious scoundrels.

There's a Healing Hug movement, led by a guru named Holy Wayne whom Perrotta memorably characterizes as "that age-old scoundrel, the Horny Man of God".

Iqaluit, which in Inuktitut means "place of many fish", lies on the northern shore of the bay named for Martin Frobisher, the explorer, pirate, Yorkshireman and all-round scoundrel who discovered Baffin Island for Queen Elizabeth in 1576.

Mr. Butz was named best male dancer for his performance in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".

All week, the alliance forces in Maidan Shahr had awaited news about negotiations between their leaders and those of the Taliban, led by a commander named Ghulam Muhammad, alternately denounced by his opponents as a brutal butcher and duplicitous scoundrel.