What is "scoundrels"

Usage examples of "scoundrels".

But the mysteries of Eleusis interested the whole of Greece, and whoever had attained some eminence in the society of those days had an ardent wish to take a part in those mysterious ceremonies, while Freemasonry, in the midst of many men of the highest merit, reckons a crowd of scoundrels whom no society ought to acknowledge, because they are the refuse of mankind as far as morality is concerned.

We found the three scoundrels in the place where the driver had told me we should see them.

On leaving the place, he brought me for supper to an inn where we met four scoundrels of his own stamp.

The scoundrels made all their arrangements, and fixed the day for committing the crime.

People wonder at the devout scoundrels who call upon their saint when they think themselves in need of heavenly assistance, or who thank him when they imagine that they have obtained some favour from him, but people are wrong, for it is a good and right feeling, which preaches against Atheism.

At all events, free, rich, and certain of presenting myself before the bishop with a respectable appearance, and not like a beggar, I soon recovered my natural spirits, and congratulated myself upon having bought sufficient experience to insure me against falling a second time an easy prey to a Father Corsini, to thieving gamblers, to mercenary women, and particularly to the impudent scoundrels who barefacedly praise so well those they intend to dupe--a species of knaves very common in the world, even amongst people who form what is called good society.

I think truly that it is much better to be alone than to mingle with the scoundrels who are doubtless here.

The scoundrels emptied my boxes and unfolded everything even to my shirts, between which they said I might have concealed English lace.

I should make an exception in favour of a set of forty ignorant, lazy, vicious, idle, hypocritical scoundrels who live bad lives under the cloak of humility, and eat up the houses of the poor simpletons who provide for them, when they ought to be earning their own bread?

I should desire to eat the hearts of the scoundrels who have placed me here?

Only a matter of paying a couple of such scoundrels as I understand abound in Spain at this moment - a little bribing of officials, a heavy fee to some English ship-captain.

You, a priest, mingle with such scoundrels as these--with these enemies of our good King and of our holy religion!

She and Camille were seated at a table before a large punch-bowl, and in company with two ragged, leering scoundrels, and a soldier, quite youthful in appearance.