Usually means: Dishonest person with low morals.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word scoundrel:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. scoundrel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scoundrel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scoundrel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scoundrel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scoundrel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scoundrel, scoundrel: Wordnik
  7. scoundrel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scoundrel: Wiktionary
  9. scoundrel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scoundrel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scoundrel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scoundrel: Dictionary.com
  13. scoundrel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scoundrel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scoundrel (novel), Scoundrel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scoundrel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scoundrel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scoundrel: Rhymezone
  19. Scoundrel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scoundrel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scoundrel: Free Dictionary
  22. scoundrel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scoundrel: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. scoundrel: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scoundrel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scoundrelly as well.)

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noun:  A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.

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