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Scoundrel

//ˈskaʊ̯ndɹəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately wordnet

Etymology

From earlier scondrel, scondrell, skoundrell, skowndrell, of unknown origin. Possibly related to northern English or Scottish scunner, skuner, scouner, scunder (“to shrink back in fear, disgust, or loathing”) (Encyclopædia Britannica 1911).

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