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scoundrels

scoundrels is the plural of scoundrel.

Meaning of scoundrel

Noun

scoundrel (plural scoundrels)

  1. A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.
    • Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept thro' Scoundrels ever ſince the Flood.1734, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle IV, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 14, lines 201–202

Questions about scoundrels

What is scoundrels the plural of?
Scoundrels is the plural of scoundrel.

Words near scoundrels in the dictionary

  1. scoundrelly
  2. scoundrelous
  3. scoundrelously
  4. scoundrelries
  5. scoundrelry
  6. scoundrels
  7. scoundrelship
  8. scour
  9. scour down
  10. scour out
  11. scour up

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