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Перевод: scoundrel
[существительное] негодяй ; подлец ; мерзавец ; шельма
Тезаурус:
- "That scoundrel sets a bad example for the other young men of the parish.
- Colloredo refused, and, after an abusive interview in which the archbishop lost both his temper and his priestly dignity, calling Mozart a scoundrel and a knave, both parties announced that each was well rid of the other.
- When I accosted the scoundrel, he turned out to be completely different Colin Chapman, up to his neck in sound bites.
- Royal scoundrel's perfect crime
- Tobie said, "Well, of course: the responsibility for the surrender lay with that traitorous scoundrel Amiroutzes.
- I would have thought that anyone with the most elementary grasp of relative importance would have decided that priority should be accorded to a female child done to death by some scoundrel."
- The President of the Hungarian Chess Federation, Sandor Szerenyi (also a former Party Secretary) called him "a scoundrel and an anarchist."
- In her book, Scoundrel Time , she put the blame for the lack of guts shown during "this sad, comic, miserable time of our history" on two things: the funk of the studio bosses and the selfishness of the entertainers they paid so well.
- Centred on one Sir Colenso Rigeon, a caricature of Wright, it concerned the decision as to which of the two men should be saved from death - a sixpenny doctor (" an honest decent man, but is he any use?") or a scoundrel of an artist (" a rotten background, but he's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things").
- "Now, if this young scoundrel has the moral fibre to wear this apparatus for one month, I can guarantee he'll be dancing the polka with the best of them."
- Remarkably, the first sighting of Dr Johnson's "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" was in The New Republic in March 1989; by which time such a bedrock of well-meaning patriotism had been wedged under the case that it proved difficult, if not impossible, to shift.
- Mrs Cutforth had been the wife of one of their most devout followers and they were not going to approve a marriage to this worldlywise womaniser and scoundrel, however financially well endowed he might be.
- "I'm satisfied with what I've done so far," said Joe, "but what a scoundrel."
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