Adjective: scoundrelly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more scoundrelly |
| Superlative | most scoundrelly |
Sample Sentences
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scoundrelly behaviour
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I know the value of time, if these scoundrelly assassins are to be caught and punished. [1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links:]
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Scoundrelly Congressional Republicans Of The United States. This refers to Republican officials that show contempt for the idea of truth. [2026, Richard Stallman, “Glossary”, in stallman.org:]
Adjectives inflected like scoundrelly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English scoundrel
3. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
4. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *-g
6. Old English -iġ
7. Middle English -y
8. English -y
9. English scoundrelly
10. From scoundrel + -y.