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scoundrel

«A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel»
«I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.»
«INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.»
«I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur (General) | Keywords: ropes, scoundrel
«Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.»
«Every man over forty is a scoundrel.»
«If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: scoundrel
«If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Alcohol | Keywords: rum, scoundrel
«A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel»
Author: Spanish Proverb | Keywords: heir, rich man, scoundrel
«As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .»

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