‘But, sir, surely you would not pander to a scoundrelly taste?’. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
Then this scoundrelly whale seized a balance and set to weighing ox-fat. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasps] Reference
"I confess, sir," he said, "that you talk like a scoundrelly socialist.". From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 29] Reference
Obama is no genius: just a scoundrelly Chicago politico with a lot of smooth gab. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Charing Cross, by name Jeremy Rofflash -- were scoundrelly common informers of the lowest type. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
My blood boils even now when I think of the rascally conduct of my enemies in that scoundrelly election. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
“GAHAGAN!” shouted out half a dozen scoundrelly voices, and fifty more shots came rattling after me. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Of Athens and lentils and Lacedaemonians and fresh mackerel and scoundrelly flour-sellers and you and me. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights] Reference
There was an immense laugh from four hundred people round about us, and the scoundrelly Dawdley joined in the yell. From Wordnik.com. [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference
He remembered the scoundrelly, tearful, lying, pitiful letter he had sent to Gemma, that never received an answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrents of Spring] Reference
Thousands of poor people perished in the days of old, guiltless victims, whilst some scoundrelly hypnotists went free. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
They are scoundrels, each and every one, regardless of party although some of them, it is true, are more scoundrelly than others. From Wordnik.com. [Politics should not be left to the trademark politicians alone] Reference
It was learned that they had been kidnapped by three men who had thought to make a large sum of money out of their scoundrelly game. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck] Reference
Potemkin at the Winter Palace at Petersburg, which the scoundrelly favourite never paid me; I have had the honour of seeing his Royal. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Since Sweetheart's prophecies as to Die Vernon, such conduct has been voted scoundrelly and unworthy of any good citizen of the nursery. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Oh, he thought they were all as scoundrelly as himself; I repeat he had that sort of simplicity, that sort of innocence of the scoundrel. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
'But, sir, surely you would not pander to a scoundrelly taste?'. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
"But, sir, surely you would not pander to a scoundrelly taste?". From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
To approach a girl in any other fashion is a mean scoundrelly thing. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
"Of your scoundrelly rabble, sir," cried Scarlett, turning upon him fiercely. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story] Reference
I had to run over to Boston to get hold of a scoundrelly relative of that poor woman. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
But, when they heard that the means of my salvation from the lance of the scoundrelly. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
'Little scoundrelly spoilt urchins, upsetting the discipline of the school, won't do here. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
'Despicable, scoundrelly, impostor who masquerades as Tom in the second half of the book.'. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of St. Austin's] Reference
He had traded on his resemblance to me to get money and do all manner of scoundrelly actions. From Wordnik.com. [A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story] Reference
I occupied an hour in relating some of the injuries I had received from this scoundrelly fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
She had guessed nothing of the scoundrelly duplicity that had marked his first advances toward her. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
"GAHAGAN!" shouted out half a dozen scoundrelly voices, and fifty more shots came rattling after me. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Good, good! but, "he went on, suddenly becoming grave again," we were talking of those scoundrelly Quicks. From Wordnik.com. [Ravensdene Court] Reference
"If 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.". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Plymouth during the vexatious attendance upon the scoundrelly Master of the SPEEDWELL, in his "doublings" in the English Channel. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
Mr. WILSON BARRETT at the Princess's, he has never had so good a chance of showing what he can do in the polished-scoundrelly line. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887] Reference
Upon her cry for immediate revolt against the scoundrelly tyrant, the people collect together and form a motley and passionate crowd. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 1] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The scoundrelly project was conceived perhaps the very day that I brought him here -- perhaps in that moment -- at lunch, do you remember?. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
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