Word Meanings - SCOUNDREL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope. (more info) scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun.

Additional info about word: SCOUNDREL

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope. (more info) scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCOUNDREL)

• Blackguard
• Scoundrel
• rascal
• rapscallion
• blackleg
• villain
• Knave
• Hogue
• cheat
• miscreant
• scoundrel
• Poltroon
• coward
• hound
• skulk
• dastard
• Rascal
• Rogue
• vagabond
• scamp
• knave

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCOUNDREL)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to SCOUNDREL)

• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• SCAMPER
  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp,
• RASCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.
• COWARDICE
  Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
• POLTROONERY
  Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
• POLTROON
  An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• SCOUNDRELISM
  The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• DASTARDLINESS
  The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
• SCAMPAVIA
  A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
• BLACKLEG
  1. A notorious gambler. 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• COWARDIE
  Cowardice.
• RASCALLY
  Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• DISCAMP
  To drive from a camp. Holland.
• HELLHOUND
  A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
• HAREHOUND
  See CHALMERS
• SLOTHHOUND
  See SLEUTHHOUND
• FOXHOUND
  One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• WOLFHOUND
  Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.
• SLEUTHHOUND
  A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
• GREYHOUND
  A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. (more info) Icel. greyhundr; grey greyhound + hundr dog; cf. AS. grghund. The
• STAGHOUND
  A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.