scoundrelly

Some scoundrelly detective was sent to fetch him along, and being vexed at finding him so drunk broke a stable fork over his ribs.

"From the very beginning of the business, I suspected that there was some scoundrelly intrigue at the bottom of it.

An Extravaganza" (1839) (Poe 1975: 736-742), the "grinning," "audacious" and sinister-looking principle of Evil is intruding upon the peaceful valley which is perfectly tuned to the cosmic rhythms; the Devil's work--ruin of the burgers' careful observance of the natural rhythms--is anticipated and suggested by his gait: "But what mainly occasioned a righteous indignation was, that the scoundrelly popinjay, while he cut a fandango here, and a whirlygig there, did not seem to have the remotest idea in the world of such a thing as keeping the time in his steps." (Poe 1975: 740)

Charles Dickens's Uriah Heep ("I'm a very umble person") from David Copperfield is as scoundrelly a character as exists in English literature.

As our storyteller, he showed us a full reflection of ourselves, our heroic, cowardly, saintly, scoundrelly selves.

In France, Vaillant's failed bomb attack on the French parliament was followed by the 'scoundrelly laws' that proscribed publications engaging in direct or 'indirect' incitement to violence.

"In the despair and anguish of his soul," the horse dealer agrees to a scoundrelly follower's secret proposal to rescue him.

Lessing said that Voltaire won his case became he outdid in scoundrelly deeds "the worst Jew of Berlin/To whom no cheating was too hard, no nasty trick too mean ..." -- that is, a superJew and champion in the art of extortion and lies despite the danger of the gallows.