Word: scoundrel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...large number of readers is its lucid, clean-cut style certainly easier reading than the classically ponderous works of the older school Gibbons and Mommsen for example. Here no foot-notes are to be found, no weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously. Mr. Thaddeus, even more than most of his colleagues, is possessed of an eye for the dramatic, and his style is rendered most vigorous by the frequent...
...Have you heard, sir, have you heard?" he gasped impatiently, "an impudent Chinaman had the temerity to land in an airplane on my parade ground this morning. The scoundrel! What are we coming to, sir? And, when I informed him that he had no business to fly over the British army, that it was contrary to international law, that I should keep his jolly old flying ricksha, and that I was really awfully cross and perturbed and should report him to the authorities?after I had thus unburdened myself, sir, the rascally fellow insulted...
...bless my soul, sir, what did the scoundrel say to me? He said: 'Me no care what you say, Blitishman. Chinaman get back plane plenty quick or whippy Blitish army. How you like that? Chinaman wanty only protect his "interests," as you say in China...
...Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor to discover who has so discourteously sent you this bit of patchwork and expose the scoundrel who so misused my name." The "patchwork" was written in 1816, accepted for publication...