English
Noun
Scoundrel (plural Scoundrels)
- one without honor; a villain
Adjectives for Scoundrel
unscrupulous; upstanding; infamous; pompous; church-going; blatant; unprincipled; hypocritical; infernal; murderous; remorseless; dissolute; swindling; insolent.
Verbs for Scoundrel
associate with—; berate—; harbor—; master—; oust—; punish—; regiment—s; rebuke—; reprimand—; shelter—; —degrades; —eludes; —evades; —shocks; — sullies; —tricks.
Thesaurus
scamp, scapegrace, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, traitor, villain, wretch, bastard, blackguard, bounder, cad, criminal, cur, deceiver, devil, good-for-nothing, heel, knave, louse, lowlife, miscreant, precious rascal, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rotter, scalawag,
Etymology
Possibly related to northern English or Scottish scunner: "to shrink back in fear or loathing" (Encyclopædia Britannica 1911).
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villain
- Arabic: وغد (ar) (waghd) m., نذل (ar) (nadhl) m., أزعر (ar) ('áz3ar) m., شرير (ar) (shirriir) m., ملط (ar) (milT) m., وضيع (ar) (waDii3) m., شقي (ar) (shaqiy) m.
- Bulgarian: негодник (bg) (negódnik) m., мерзавец (bg) (merzávec) m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惡棍 (cmn), 恶棍 (cmn) (ègùn), 坏家伙 (cmn) (huàijiāhuo), 混混兒 (cmn), 混混儿 (cmn) (hùnhùnr) (Northern Mandarin), 壞蛋 (cmn), 坏蛋 (cmn) (huàidàn), 無籟 (cmn), 无籁 (cmn) (wúlài), 渾蛋 (cmn), 浑蛋 (cmn) (húndàn), 流氓 (cmn) (liúmáng), 壞人 (cmn), 坏人 (cmn) (huàirén), 混球 (cmn) (húnqiú)
- Czech: gauner (cs) m.
- Dutch: schurk (nl) m. and f., schavuit (nl) m. and f.
- Finnish: roisto (fi), lurjus (fi), konna (fi), ketku (fi), kanalja (fi), hunsvotti (fi)
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- French: scélérat (fr) m., gredin (fr) m., canaille (fr) f.
- German: Schurke (de) m., Gauner (de) m.
- Indonesian: bajingan (id)
- Italian: canaglia (it) f., farabutto (it) m., furfante (it) m., mascalzone (it) m.
- Japanese: 悪党 (ja) (あくとう, akutō), 悪漢 (ja) (あっかん, akkan), 悪人 (ja) (あくにん, akunin)
- Polish: łotr (pl) m., drań (pl) m.
- Romanian: mişel (ro)
- Russian: негодяй (ru) (negodjáj) m., мерзавец (ru) (merzávec) m., подлец (ru) (podléc) m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хуља (sh) f., зли̏ковац (sh) m.
- Roman: hulja (sh) f., zlȉkovac (sh) m.
- Spanish: bribón (es) m., bellaco (es) m.
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