Scoundrel

Definition: Scoundrel

Scoundrel

Noun

1. A wicked or evil person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scoundrel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: Scoundrel

Bad Man

Villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, basilisk, urchin; tiger, monster; devil; (demon); devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell.

Crosswords: Scoundrel

Occasionally maybewhen you aren't acting like a scoundrel. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

I would if you weren't such a scoundrel. (Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.)

That supercilious scoundrel confiscated my honey (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

Oh, I have no doubt that you a scoundrel Higgins (The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin; writing credit: Albert Sidney Fleischman; Lowell S. Hawley)

One scoundrel indisputable with hatred and malice for all. Now mount up and go do that voodoo that you do so well (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger)

Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973)

Death of a Scoundrel (1956)

The Scoundrel (1935)

An Oily Scoundrel (1916)

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Books

• Confessions of a Scoundrel (reference)

• Scoundrel (reference)

• Scoundrel Time (reference)

• Seduced by a Scoundrel (reference)

• The Scoundrel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• King Kong (1933 Film) / This Is Cinerama (1952 Film) / Death Of A Scoundrel (1956 Film) [3 on 1] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Scoundrel Days [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured afterwards in several criminal trials, and has since become a celebrated scoundrel.

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Expressions using "scoundrel": a downright scoundrel ♦ a regular scoundrel ♦ shameless scoundrel ♦ young scoundrel. Additional references.

Afrikaans

ploert (cheat, crook, rogue). (various references)

Albanian

zullumqar (nefarious, nefarious man, rascal, villainous), zarbanik (rascal), zabërhan (rascan), viran (rascal), horr (cad, knave, rat, reprobate, rough neck, ruffian, villain), faqezi (dishonest person, rapscallion, washout). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نذل (cad, ragamuffin, rascally, scoundrelly, villainous), ‏وغد (cad, miscreant, rascal, rogue, tear away), ‏النذل (rapscallion, rascal, scamp, villain), ‏الوغد (blackguard, kite, knave, loon, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scapegrace, villain). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разбойник (bandolero, brigand, desperado, felon, footpad, highwayman, outlaw, pad, robber, scamp, villain), мошеник (blackguard, cheat, crook, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), подлец (bastard, blackguard, caitiff, creep, dastard, hangdog, ratface, recreant, reprobate, skunk, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog). (various references)

Chinese 

無籟 , 歹�', 壞蛋 (bad egg, bastard). (various references)

Czech

nièema (blackguard, heel, miscreant, rogue, rotter, ruffian, vagabond, villain), mizera (bastard, blighter, bugger, dog, horror, rascal, rat, scamp, stinker, villain), gauner (crook, racketeer, villain). (various references)

Dutch

schoelje (rogue), rotzak (rogue), ploert (cheat, crook, rogue), loeder (rogue). (various references)

Esperanto

kanajlo (rogue). (various references)

Faeroese

bartrog (rogue). (various references)

Farsi 

لات , رذل . (various references)

Finnish

roisto (cheat, crook, knave, rascal, rogue, villain), lurjus (knave, rascal), konna (toad, villain), heittiö (rascal). (various references)

French

gredin, crapule (scab), canaille. (various references)

German

Schurke (a rascally fellow, baddie, blackguard, bounder, cheat, crook, desperado, knave, miscreant, rascal, rogue, scoundrell, villain), Schuft (blackguard, cad, cheat, crook, cur, heel, meanie, rascal, rogue, scamp, villain, wretch), Kanaille (canaille, rabble, rascal, rogue), Halunke (cheat, crook, grafter, humbug, rascal, rogue, scamp). (various references)

Greek 

παλιάνθρωποσ (blackguard, knave, miscreant, rascal, rotter, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skunk), παλιάνθρωπος (scamp), παλιοτόμαρο (cad, scallywag), αχρείοσ (depraved, foul, infamous, miscreant, rascal, rascally, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Hebrew 

ז�" (insolent, villain, wanton, wicked), �'זלן (brigand, rascal, robber), בן בליעל (rascal, rogue, villain, wicked), רמאי (cheat, cheater, cheating, deceiver, duper, fraudulent, humbug, impostor, mountebank, ringer, rogue, sharper, sneaky, swindler, trickster), � ך (wicked), � וכל (charlatan, crafty, crook, impostor, knave, miscreant, racketeer, rogue, shark, sharper, swindrel, trickster), � בל (bastard, black sheep, bounder, mean, rascal, varlet, villain, wicked). (various references)

Hungarian

csirkefogó (badmash, cad, gouge, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, scamp, scampish), gazember (bad hat, bad lot, bastard, blackguard, bugger, deceiver, miscreant, rascal, rogue, s.o.b., shabby fellow, shag, son of a gun, thief, villain), csibész (badmash, bratty, cad, gutter-snipe, knave, rascally, scoundrelly, urchin, wide boy). (various references)

Indonesian

berandal (bandit, gangster, rascal). (various references)

Italian

mascalzone (blackguard, cad, rascal, rogue, rotter, scalawag, scallywag, villain, yahoo). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無� �漢 (ruffian, villain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したたかもの (desperate character, strong-willed person), ぶらいか�" (ruffian, villain), か�"じ�" (aChinese, armorer, crucial, essential, fundamental, magnanimous, main, man of leisure, temple solicitation, villain, vital), �"くあくに�", あくとう (rascal, villain, wild pitch), あくと (rascal, villain), あっか�" (best part, crook, feeling feverish and chilly, highlight, ill or unhappy feeling, masterpiece, rascal, ruffian, villain), わるもの (bad fellow, rascal, ruffian). (various references)

Korean 

불한당 (robber). (various references)

Manx

screb (cicatrice, rapscallion, rascal, varlet), mooidjeen (blackguard, fellow, outcast, outlaw, rascal, villain). (various references)

Pig Latin

oundrelscay.(various references)

Portuguese

canalha (blackguard, canaille, heavy, mean-spirited, miscreant, mob, rabble, riffraff, rogue, rotter, scam artist, villain), biltre (rogue, rotter, scalawag, scallywag, scamp). (various references)

Romanian

scelerat (vile, villain, villainous, wicked, wretch), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), tâlhar (brigand, captor, cracksman, footpad, gangster, harrier, highwayman, lurcher, miscreant, robber, rogue, sharp, thief), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), om de nimic (a bad egg, flibbertigibbet, jerk, kestrel, ne'er do well, nobody, scalawag, scamp), nemernic (base, cad, caitiff, felon, foul, rascal, rascally, reprobate, scamp, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), nelegiuit (iniquitous, unlawful, villainous, wicked), lepãdãturã (abortion, degenerate, freak, villain), derbedeu (reprobate, rogue, scapegrace, tramp, truant, urchin, vagabond), chiolhãnos (vile, villain), canalie (rapscallion, rascal, toad, villain), şnapan (bad egg, bad hat), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp). (various references)

Russian 

негодяй (brat, coyote, dastard, gallows bird, gallows-bird, hound, knave, loon, man of Belial, miscreant, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, spalpeen, villain, wretch), мерзавец (blackguard, git), подлец (blackguard, coyote, dastard, dog, mean-spirited fellow, pimp, rascal, reprobate, whoreson). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podlac (cad, heel, knave), nitkov (blackguard, cad, cur, scamp). (various references)

Spanish

sinvergüenza (blackguard, blighter, bounder, cad, miscreant, rotter, shameless, shocker, you little beggar, you little perisher), malandrín (wicked), canalla (blackguard, cad, cur, heel, hound, mob, outsider, rabble, rat, riff raff, scab, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, skunk, stinker, swine, you cad), bribón (dog, knave, rascal, varmint, villain, wily). (various references)

Swedish

slyngel (jackanapes, loon, oaf, scamp), skurk (baddie, blackguard, cheat, crook, heavy, jackal, louses, miscreant, mug, rapscallion, rogue, ruffian, villain, viper), rackare (blighter, cheat, crook, rascal, rogue, scallywag, scamp, varmint, villain), lymmel (backguard, cad, lout, rascal, scamp). (various references)

Turkish

rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), puşt (scoundrelly), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), dürzü (scoundler, traitor), alçak herif (bugger, dastard, rascal, skunk, spalpeen, swab, wretch), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous). (various references)

Ukrainian

негідник (blackguard, cad, caitiff, cullion, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, reprobate, skunk, thief, varlet, wretch), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tên vô lại (ruffian, tough), tên du thủ du thực. (various references)

Welsh

dihiryn (blackguard, rascal), anfadwr (villain), adyn (wretch). (various references)

carnificem, flagitii, flagitium. (various references)

mairya. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scoundrel": scoundrelly, scoundrels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scoundrel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schundler, scondrel, scoundral, scroundrel, Skundric, soundrel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: closured, crunodes, roundels, unclosed, unsolder.

-2 letters: cloners, closure, cloured, colures, cornels, counsel, coursed, crunode, curdles, enduros, loudens, lucerns, nodules, resound, rondels, roundel, rundles, scolder, scorned, scoured, sounder, sourced, unclose, undoers.

-3 letters: censor, ceorls, cerous, cloned, cloner, clones, clonus, closed, closer, clouds, clours, codens, coders, colder, coleus, colure, consul, corned, cornel, cornus, course, credos.

+1 letter: chondrules, concluders, scoundrels, undercools.

+2 letters: incredulous, scoundrelly.

+3 letters: glucuronides, indecorously, underclothes.

+4 letters: counterworlds, credulousness, glucuronidase, incredulously, ludicrousness, nondisclosure, radionuclides, thunderclouds.

+5 letters: glucuronidases, nondisclosures, radiolucencies, rediscountable, reduplications, ribonucleoside, ridiculousness, trinucleotides, underclothings, undiscoverable.