scapegrace
a complete rogue or rascal; a habitually unscrupulous person; scamp.
Origin of scapegrace
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How to use scapegrace in a sentence
Now this younger son—I believe that he is in his twenty-first year at present—has been something of a scapegrace.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniThat scapegrace brother is the one of all that family most worthy your respect and mine.
The Diamond Coterie | Lawrence L. LynchHis military service involved him in the wild pleasures and perils of scapegrace lads upon a foreign soil.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziYes they can, aunt, if she married a man whom she knew to be a scapegrace because he was very rich and an earl.
Can You Forgive Her? | Anthony TrollopeOne winter a young scapegrace stole a sailboat from the wharf and put out to sea.
American Inventions and Inventors | William A. Mowry
British Dictionary definitions for scapegrace
/ (ˈskeɪpˌɡreɪs) /
an idle mischievous person
Origin of scapegrace
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