Sentence examples for scoundrels from inspiring English sources
The word 'scoundrels' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a group of people who behave unacceptably or dishonestly. For example: "The scoundrels had broken into the abandoned building and were looting it of whatever they could find."
If the Christian Democrats did slightly better, it was thanks to their control of the interior ministry, which had raised a very loud and public hue and cry after the Gorilla scoundrels.
The third of Potter's peerless quartet, the others being Gamesmanship, Lifemanship and Supermanship – all very well conflated in the Alastair Sim film School for Scoundrels.
It's a choice amongst scoundrels.
The reward: saving the Strasbourg court and reconciling the British with human rights, currently seen as a scoundrels' charter.
But for the Depression it struck dramatically over a mere ten days in early 1933, just before Franklin Roosevelt took office.In the years after the 1929 crash, Wall Street, except for a few scoundrels, had largely escaped broad condemnation, portraying itself guilty of nothing more than the same irrational exuberance that had seized ordinary investors.
Cattle-rustlers are, to misquote John Wayne, a thieving pack of scoundrels.
The same goes for parliamentary elections: the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, is a nest of scoundrels and oligarchs' placemen, who should be replaced.
Commission-bashing has become a favourite refuge of patriotic scoundrels.
And this love, in turn, endears these two scoundrels to the viewer.
His better films of the 1980s include Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980), Deathtrap (1982), Educating Rita (1983; best actor Oscar nomination), Mona Lisa (1986), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986; Academy Award for best supporting actor), Without a Clue (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988).
Brown's stage productions included an admired one-man show, Tru, in which Robert Morse evoked Truman Capote, two musical adaptations of movies, Sweet Smell of Success (2002) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), both starring John Lithgow, and an off-Broadway revue based on the songs of Jerry Herman, Showtune (2003).
