scoun

By all reports, Louis was a bright, handsome, charming man, but in our family folklore he was a scoun-drel.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

‘And now for this stupid scoun - drel --’ ‘Your success in Europe is assured in any case,’ I affirmed steadily, I did not want to have the throttling of him, you understand -- and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical pur - pose.

Heart of Darkness 1960

I would never pay you a cent to settle this or any other unfounded suit, and I never did anything for which you or any other scoun -- beg pardon, I mean lawyer -- could blackmail me.

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Arthur Cheney Train 1910

"And in the meantime you are going to make that same child work for her daily bread like any 'hired man,' and keep company with any scoun --"

The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905

He is for all the world like a man we had in the old regiment when you were in swaddling-clothes; and I never look at Mamie Gray's sad, white face that it doesn't bring back a girl I knew just then whose heart was broken by just such a shallow, selfish, adorable scoun -- No, I won't use _that_ word in speaking of Jerrold; but it's what I fear.

From the Ranks Charles King 1888

-- me who had watched over 'er for years w'en the scoun - drel she belonged to was ashamed to acknowledge

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909