scoundrelly

Related to scoundrelly: holding back, Pertaining to, reacquainted

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Lessing said that Voltaire won his case became he outdid in scoundrelly deeds "the worst Jew of Berlin/To whom no cheating was too hard, no nasty trick too mean .

Lessing, Voltaire, and the Jews

Briefly, the structure of the piece is typical of the period with rakish scoundrelly sons (here Matt Flowerdale) who did manage to come good in the end.

Fun, but prodigall with the Bardic claims; POST REVIEWS Richard Edmonds on the exhumation of a 400 year-old play in which Shakespeare is rumoured to have had a hand

So here was this virtuous husband behaving in a splendidly scoundrelly fashion, and no one even noticed.

From The Robber

Scoundrelly patriots called her a traitress, the godly called her godless,

Victim into protagonist? 'Midnight's Children' and the post-Rushdie national narratives of the Eighties

under your scoundrelly Yankee influence, the negroes grow worse and worse every season.

William Gilmore Simms, woodlands, and the Freedmen's Bureau

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