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Meanings of scapegrace in English

Catalan
brivall
Spanish
granuja

A reckless and unprincipled reprobate.

        brivall
        Usage of scapegrace in English
        1
        Is my nephew and namesake so peevish a scapegrace? demanded the visitor.
        A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
        2
        Come, come, another made of the stool of a young scapegrace catamite.
        The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
        3
        I went to look for your young scapegrace of a Virginian.
        The Virginians
        4
        There seemed an affinity between this scapegrace lad and Amy Gregg.
        Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
        5
        She was fond of that poor scapegrace, with all his faults and follies.
        The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti / From Coals Of Fire And Other ...
        6
        You've grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.
        Little Women
        7
        You have always seemed indifferent, hard even, toward my scapegrace son.
        Agatha Webb
        8
        TRYGAEUS Get you gone, you little scapegrace, you and your battles!
        Peace
        9
        Why should he any longer help to sustain a scapegrace?
        Poe
        10
        There was a general indulgent feeling that Harry-wickedyoung scapegrace-hadhad all the luck.
        Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
        11
        Evidently the little scapegrace had meant what he said and had carried Madge off.
        Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
        12
        But then the sinner that I would have married was so irredeemable a scapegrace.
        The Prime Minister
        13
        But the undaunted company scapegrace was not to be beaten.
        The Amateur Army
        14
        This idle scapegrace had got into fresh debt and difficulty.
        The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
        15
        Let Nefert ask Paaker for the money, and the young scapegrace's debts are paid.
        Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 03
        16
        If ever there was an utter scapegrace, it was he.
        Christian's Mistake
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