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Scoundrelly

Definition: Scoundrelly

Scoundrelly

Adjective

1. Lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew".

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

Date "scoundrelly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)



Synonyms: Scoundrelly

Synonyms: blackguardly (adj), rascally (adj), roguish (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Scoundrelly

English words defined with "scoundrelly": blackguardlyrascally, roguish. (references)

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Modern Translations: Scoundrelly

Language Translations for "scoundrelly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i poshtër (beggarly, blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scurvy, sneaking, sneaky). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نذل (cad, ragamuffin, rascally, scoundrel, villainous), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разбойнически (piratic), мошенически (dishonest, fast, fraudulent, knavish, phoney, phony, rascally, roguish, tricky). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nièemný (caitiff, contemptible, despicable, miscreated, rascally, roguish, scampish, vile, villainous, worthless). (various references)

   

French

  

de vaurien, de gredin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, pervert, reprobate, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wanton, wicked). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gaz (knavish, nefarious, rascally, roguish, villainous, weed). (various references)

   

Manx

  

screbbagh (mangy, rascally, scabbed, scabby). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundrellyscay

   

Portuguese

  

patife (caitiff, cheat, crook, heavy, knave, mean-spirited, miscreant, ne'er do well, rascal, rascally, reprobate, rogue, rotter, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, spalpeen, vagabond, villain, wretch), malvado (bad, black-hearted, candle-wick, evil, felon, felonry, flag officer, heavy, ill-conditioned, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, reprobate, vicious, villain, wicked, wrong), malandro (meantime, picaroon, rascal, roguish, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, vagabond, wheeler dealer). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подлый (base, dastardly, despicable, dirty, ignoble, mean, meanspirited, mean-spirited, rascally, reprobate, reptile, scummy, sneaking, vile, villainous, wormy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

podlački. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skurkaktigt (ruffianly). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

puşt (scoundrel), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), 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, scoundrel, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô lại (caddish, miscreant), du thủ du thực. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Scoundrelly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-y"

-2 letters: colluders, scoundrel.

-3 letters: closured, colluder, colludes, condyles, crousely, crunodes, cursedly, cynosure, delusory, enscroll, roundels, scrolled, scullery, secondly, secundly, unclosed, uncloyed, unrolled, unsolder.

-4 letters: cloners, closely, closure, cloured, collude, colures, condyle, cornels, counsel, coursed, crudely, cruelly, crunode, cullers, curdles, doucely, duellos, ecdyson, elusory, enduros, enrolls, loculed, locules, loudens, lucerns, nodules, ocellus, resound, rondels, roundel, roundly, rundles, scolder, scorned, scoured, sculled, sculler, sounder, soundly, sourced, unclose, undoers, unrolls, yodlers.

-5 letters: cellos, censor, ceorls, cerous, cloned, cloner, clones, clonus, closed, closer, clouds, cloudy, clours, cloyed, codens, coders, colder, coldly, coleus, colure, coneys, consul, corned, cornel, cornus, course, credos, cresol, cresyl, crones, crouse, crudes, culled, culler, curdle, curled, cursed, cyders, decors, decoys, decury, descry, dorsel, dourly, douser, doyens, drolls, drolly, drones, duello, duller, dunces, durocs, dynels, enduro, enroll, enrols, ensoul, escudo, locule, lodens, lonely, loners, lordly, louden, louder, loudly, loured, loused, lucern, lucres, nerols, nodule, nudely, nulled, nurled, nursed, odyles, oscule, ounces, recons, redons, resold, rolled, rondel, rouens, rounds, roused, rudely, rundle, scored, scroll, second, secund, senryu, snored, solder, solely, sonder, sorely, sorned, souled, source, soured, sourly, sullen, sunder, sundry, surely, synced, ulcers, uncles, undoer, undoes, unroll, unsell, unsold, uredos, yodels, yodler, yodles, yonder.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-y"
 

+2 letters: incredulously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scoundrelly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 6F 75 6E 64 72 65 6C 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ---    ..-    -.    -..    .-.    .    .-..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#114 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 006F 0075 006E 0064 0072 0065 006C 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369818780708471787891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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