Antonyms for scoundrel
ˈskaʊn drəlscoundrel

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1. scoundrel

   Antonyms:
   man of honor, gentleman

   Synonyms:
   villain, vagabond, knave, swindler, miscreant, reprobate

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1. • Unwelcome Person

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. villain, scoundrelnoun

   a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

   Synonyms:
   baddie, villain

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1. scoundrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   villain, knave, rascal, scamp, rogue, caitiff, reprobate, cheat, swindler, libertine, miscreant, bezonian, vagabond, wretch

How to use scoundrel in a sentence?

1. Walt Disney Co:

   The story focuses on how young Han Solo became the smuggler, thief and scoundrel whom Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first encountered in the cantina at Mos Eisley.

2. Bob Dylan:

   They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings

3. Wolf Blitzer:

   We need each other, and it is a scoundrel who would prosper politically by turning us against each other, that is the job before us -- to get through this, and beyond it. And you're just the ones to take us there.

4. Joseph de Maistre:

   I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

5. Samuel Johnson:

   Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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