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# scoundrel

«scoundrel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A wicked, dishonest person who cheats or does bad things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a scoundrel, scoundrels — old-fashioned)

### meaning for a pupil

(old-fashioned) A wicked, dishonest person who cheats or does bad things to others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A villain word in older stories, plays and cartoons: «You scoundrel!» In The Wind in the Willows the weasels and stoats who seize Toad Hall are called villains and scoundrels; when Toad steals the car, the magistrate calls him an incorrigible rogue and a hardened ruffian.

### examples

- «You scoundrel!» shouted the captain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x1)
- The scoundrel stole the old lady's purse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x2)
- The weasels were a gang of scoundrels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x3)
- The story is about a scoundrel who cheats a whole town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x4)
- He was a charming scoundrel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x5)
- The scoundrel ran off with the money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x6)
- “G-g-gone?” cried the herdsman. “Scoundrel, you lie!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/#x7)

### note

Old-fashioned: today people say «crook», «villain» or «rogue». It is an insult, but not a swear word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scoundrel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoundrel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.