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  • n  a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  • n  in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood

  • Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind all this is 23-year-old .
  • Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with her daughter Veda as a working woman, a moneygrubber, a "varlet.
  • And, by Kitchener, the varlet was.

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