Recent Examples on the WebThen the scoundrels noticed that the boat’s plughole was open, leading it to take on water at a rapid rate and slowly sink.—Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024 These scoundrels are part of our founding story, too.—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024 Because people are fundamentally good and stealing from special needs kids is glaringly bad, Miracle League of North Oakland has already received far more in donations and good wishes than the scoundrel took.—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024 My annual Worst Biopharma CEO list is typically populated with blockheads and scoundrels.—Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 19 Dec. 2023 This is not a permission slip to act as bellicose jerks or hypocritical scoundrels.—Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023 The film presents the France of the Revolution and the Empire as an unfortunate episode of a country in the hands of a people of bloodthirsty and ill-mannered scoundrels.—Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 Its dramatis personae includes that paragon of English manhood, Ben Avery, the likable scoundrel Colonel Blood and, not least, Sheba, the ultrasexy pirate queen who, anachronistically, favors Gucci thigh-high boots.—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023 As the sun set and the crowd applauded, Mr. Buffett had an epiphany that this tropical paradise, with its scoundrels, literary lights, smugglers and fishermen, would be home as well as endlessly fertile ground for songwriting material.—Glenn Rifkin, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
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