Example sentences for: scoundrel

How can you use “scoundrel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's a familiar story: On Aug. 9, 1974, Nixon leaves Washington with a 24 percent public approval rating, facing a possible prison sentence; by Aug. 9, 1999, he has been transformed into a foreign-policy visionary, a domestic-policy liberal, and no worse a scoundrel than lots of other presidents.

  • Rechavam Ze'evi (Moledet) said that the authorities at two Israeli Holocaust museums who had expressed a willingness to receive Arafat were "stoop-backed Jews who were groveling to this scoundrel."

  • Samuel Johnson said Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and many postal observers believe that the Universal Service Obligation (USO) is the last refuge of a postal service wishing to protect inefficiency, monopoly profits, or economic rents.

  • The right holds that Starr has valiantly defended justice and the rule of law against a scoundrel president.

  • But at long last, in Air Force One the president gets to be something other than a loser or a scoundrel.


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