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• n  a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

• This accident-prone scoundrel has the makings of a natural-born kung fu genius--just the fellow to do battle against that legendary killer the Beast (Leung Siu-lung).
• Thereafter, whenever a prophecy failed to materialize, the oracle could angrily proclaim that the prediction had been concocted by that forging scoundrel Onomakritos.
• He also calls Madoff "a scoundrel without par.

• villain

News & Articles

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• WATCH: Jay Leno Spoofs Taylor Swift's '22' Music Video
  Jay Leno wants you to know that that scoundrel Taylor Swift copied his music video. Actually, that didn't happen at all, but the late night host did spoof her "22" music video with an amazing clip for his tune "63." It includes lots of dancing old people, Activia yogurt, and Boniva references. It's awesome and Taylor thinks so too. She tweeted: "The heart shaped glasses! The confetti! The dance ...
  June 7, 2013 - Zimbio

Quotes

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• Elie Wiesel in Reuters
  NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Calling accused swindler Bernard Madoff a "crook, a thief, a scoundrel," Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said on Thursday he could never forgive the man he says stole all of his...
• Samuel Johnson in Daily Inter Lake
  Samuel Johnson said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," but that was in another time and place.
• Jonathan Lethem in Los Angeles Times
  But despite being an influence on others -- and being willing to mentor several young writers, including Jeff Hobbs and Joe McGinniss Jr. -- Ellis himself was sometimes discussed more like "an actor, or a scoundrel," said Lethem. "Someone who...