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Meanings of scapegrace in inglés

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A reckless and unprincipled reprobate.

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Synonyms
Examples for "black sheep"
Examples for "black sheep"
1
And so the baa-lambs of Meeting have disowned their two black sheep.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
2
Well, I am the black sheep, and I suppose I am sorry.
Wild Kitty
3
As the proverb says, there is no family without a black sheep.
The History of a Lie: "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"
4
He might be reconciled to black sheep but never to pink ones.
The Gay Cockade
5
That was when I was a black sheep, years & years ago.
The new yorker
Usage of scapegrace in inglés
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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