scoundrelly


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Related to scoundrelly: holding back, Pertaining to, reacquainted
See: sinister
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In the despair and anguish of his soul," the horse dealer agrees to a scoundrelly follower's secret proposal to rescue him.
The difficult justice of Melville & Kleist
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.
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So here was this virtuous husband behaving in a splendidly scoundrelly fashion, and no one even noticed.
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