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Like a Dickensian Andy Capp, Johnson is an uber-charming rogue, an everyman bluesy belter whose winking humor with a hint of the scoundrel are not entirely unlike Scott’s demeanor, though each man’s vocals, inflection and stage presence are/were clearly their own.—Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025 In the first, Trump treated a moral hero as an ungrateful scoundrel.—David Remnick, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025 That edge is somewhat novel in Star Wars’s universe of smugglers, which typically feels bifurcated between scoundrels with a heart of gold and petty criminals who are rarely more than their base nature.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025 This painting becomes the center of a scheme to weaken Cosimo’s reputation, and Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor, goldsmith and all-around scoundrel, is hired to steal it — a choice that leads to some of the most hilarious high jinks in the book.—Chelsea Leu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scoundrel
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