Scoundrelry

Quick meaning: Scoundrelry is a noun meaning Villainy, evildoing; acts of villainy or evildoing.

Meaning

Villainy, evildoing; acts of villainy or evildoing.

More Meanings

1. Scoundrels in general; a group of scoundrels

Example Sentences

1863. United States Congress. House documents. Messrs. Lyles and Polhamus & Co. will advise you that I have settled the iron business all O. K., to the satisfaction of all but the scoundrelry in Florida and here, who caused the difficulty.

2006. Mark Copeland. The Bundle at Blackthorpe Heath. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. page 87. Rufus grew alarmed and in a bid to be free bit the policeman hard on the thumb. "You scoundrelry!" squealed the constable as he dropped the little beetle to the ground.

2010. Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Pirates of the Levant. Penguin. While this jewel of the scoundrelry babbled on, I, after my initial surprise, stayed where I was, my back to the wall, hat in hand and sword in sheath, saying nothing, but waiting to see when he would finally get to the point.

1999. Dab Rebellato. 1956 and all that: the making of modern British drama. Psychology Press. page 94. The designer Such is the disdain now shown for theatre design in the period before Look Back in Anger, that it is automatic to imagine it as a design era of tyrannical and monstrous scoundrelry.

Word Forms

• scoundrelries

Synonyms for scoundrelry

Depending on context, synonyms include villainy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include villainy, scoundrelism, evildoing, devilment, vileness, skuggery.

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