scoundrel

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SCOUNDREL. An opprobrious title given to a person of bad character. General damages will not lie for calling a man a scoundrel, but special damages may be recovered when there has been an actual loss. 2 Bouv: Inst. n. 2250; 1 Chit. Pr. 44.

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The motley crew of the Boar,s Head at Eastcheap are the ancestors of Surtees,s rascals, and their scoundrelism is just as tolerable and as entertaining.
Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society

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