What is "scoundrelly"

Usage examples of "scoundrelly".

If I had been alone I should have brought matters to a crisis on the spot, but I had a distaste to the presence of her mother and her scoundrelly brother.

When I entered the room I was accosted by the scoundrelly Pocchini, dressed in a military uniform, who said he had the honour of introducing me to his daughters.

I occupied an hour in relating some of the injuries I had received from this scoundrelly fellow.

Vengeance-- I Enter into a Correspondence With Another Prisoner, Father Balbi: His Character--I Plan With Him a Means of Escape--How I Contrived to Let Him Have My Pike I Am Given a Scoundrelly Companion: His Portrait.

I am come to request him to order his scoundrelly myrmidons who have seized my carriage to give it up, so that I may continue my journey.

I had a pistol handy I would blow out his brains, and if not I would give him my purse and call him a scoundrelly assassin.

I take into account what a damned scoundrelly thing it was I was persuaded into undertaking.

I quickly opened it again, and I saw the scoundrelly Torriano holding the widow with one hand while he beat her furiously with a stick he held in the other.

I never heard of a more scoundrelly action than getting me to tell you all that old story, and put myself into such a wrong box, on the pretence that I was to get a thousand pounds, and now you say that what you signed is waste paper.

In the person of Fra Palamone, of whose scoundrelly proclivities I had had more than an inkling already, it is undoubtedly true that many agreeable qualities were to be found.

The sighing persists, wakes up with Matern, goes to bed with him, sits with him at tables in the Radio Building canteen, while he is rehearsing his scoundrelly lines for the last time.

I am an Englishman, and he none, if the Gubbings attack us, the first bullet that I shall fire at them will have gone through his scoundrelly brains.

Jubber presented, to all appearance, the most scoundrelly aspect that humanity can assume, when he was clothed in his evening uniform, and illuminated by his own circus lamplight, he nevertheless reached an infinitely loftier climax of blackguard perfection when he was arrayed in his private costume, and was submitted to the tremendous ordeal of pure daylight.

Instead of removing slack bullying captains, he reduced to the ranks every officer who had a good record and appointed scoundrelly favourites of his own in their places-with the understanding that a commission of half whatever they succeeded in making out of their appointments should be paid to him, and no questions asked.

Not that I understand why scoundrelly beggars must be lodged instead of keelhauledbut I would have enough else to do without troubling my head with Moonship ideas.