0 a person, especially a man, who treats other people very badly and has no moral principles: --
1 a person, esp. an elected official, who treats others badly and cannot be trusted --
Such accusations are wholly unprincipled: they represent the last refuge of a scoundrel.
By the same token, there are people who are absolute scoundrels and who take on people through litigation.
We believed that sooner or later one of the scoundrels would give his friends away.
But you cannot indict men for being scoundrels.
I believe that the register is not only unnecessary but will never catch the real scoundrels.
I do not know whether he is regarded as the biggest scoundrel and myself as the biggest fool.
He is a very clever scoundrel, and avoids detection for some time.
I am not suggesting for a moment that there is not need for machinery to deal with the scoundrel.
