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a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
- a whoring, drunken scapegrace who was blackening the family's name
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“Scapegrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scapegrace. Accessed 2 Aug. 2021.
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The first known use of scapegrace was in 1763
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