Sentence examples for scoundrelly from inspiring English sources

Knights (424 bce; Greek Hippeis) consists of a violent attack on the same demagogue, Cleon, who is depicted as the favourite slave of the stupid and irascible Demos until he is, at last, ousted from his position of influence and authority by Agoracritus, a sausage seller who is even more scoundrelly and impudent than Cleon.

Although Brown Dog's American Indian sobriquet masks questionable native origins, he does, in his own scoundrelly way, represent something of life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

But what I love about the play is that the doctors are just as scoundrelly as the artist, Louis Dubedat, who at least has the gift of rhapsodic eloquence when he cries on his deathbed "I believe in Michael Angelo, Velasquez and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of colour, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting and the message of Art that made these hands blessed".

He looked hard at the stranger, and spat on the floor as if he had seen a toad; then glanced at the newspaper, then again at the intruder, and spat again, his hair bristling gradually into more shaggy ferocity, till he closed the alternation of spitting and staring, by fairly exclaiming, 'What a scoundrelly phiz!' and rushing out of the room.

The unfortunate moniker, bestowed on him by his scoundrelly thespian father, William, seems at first a terrible misnomer: Tom's a sensible, decent, thoughtful boy, whose only trace of lunacy is an occasional tendency toward impulsiveness in matters of romance.