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Definition: Scoundrelly |
ScoundrellyAdjective1. 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: ScoundrellySynonyms: blackguardly (adj), rascally (adj), roguish (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scoundrelly |
| English words defined with "scoundrelly": blackguardly ♦ rascally, roguish. (references) |
| 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 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) подлый (base, dastardly, despicable, dirty, ignoble, mean, meanspirited, mean-spirited, rascally, reprobate, reptile, scummy, sneaking, vile, villainous, wormy). (various references) podlački. (various references) skurkaktigt (ruffianly). (various references) 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) vô lại (caddish, miscreant), du thủ du thực. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 6F 75 6E 64 72 65 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- ..- -. -.. .-. . .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c o u n d r e l l y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369818780708471787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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