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scapegraces

n. (plural of scapegrace English)

Usage examples of "scapegraces".

What would you have the government do with the scapegraces who do nothing but invent ways to disturb people, when we are beginning to be a little quiet, after all the troubles we have had, good Lord God, that poor queen that I see go by in the cart!

If you won’t follow a calling because there are scapegraces in it, you will not choose one right away.

In truth, he began upon this way early: of all the violent, daring, disobedient scapegraces that ever caused an affectionate parent pain, he was certainly the most incorrigible.

Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg.