Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or like a scamp; knavish; rascally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or like a scamp; knavish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective resembling a
scamp ;knavish
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Examples
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Ameche and Tierney are a handsome, appealing pair from their first meeting in a bookshop, while Charles Coburn (as scampish Grandpa Hugo) and Allyn Joslyn (as Henry's strait-laced cousin Albert) round out a fabulous supporting cast.
John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011
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For while every discount A. J. Liebling who parachutes into the state likes to establish that Louisiana is ruled by scampish Cajun kings, tin-pot Napoleons, and back-slapping, nut-cutting populists of the Long stripe, it is a stereotype that historically has been, well, sort of true.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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Apologies to all those who expect something less puerile from Vicious Imagery, I'm in a scampish mood today...
Innuendo [and out the other] DAVID BISHOP 2010
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In terrific clips, we see the scampish gleam of mischief that shot out of Atwater's steely eyes, giving him the look of a honky-tonk Daniel Craig.
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There is Uncle Skoal, blond, handsome and scampish, who sported a wooden leg from a chain-saw accident.
Coming of Age at Lakeside Allan Carlson 2008
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Seriously, if Mindy McCready made a film about a scampish Volkswagen and Lindsay Lohan was beaten up and choked by her ex-boyfriend you'd think the pair of them were twins.
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Perhaps Iain, with his post, is being his usual naughty scampish self and, in the nicest possible way, trying to make things just a little more difficult for the Lib Dems by suggesting political momentum for Clegg?
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The humorous characters, which are also taken from the play, — a buxom widow who with her eyes open chooses the most scampish of two selfish suitors because he is the better looking, — are well done.
An Autobiography 2004
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Church — I thought that this scurvy scampish knave might show them the way to the place he mentioned, unless his courage failed him.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Originally a prisoner, and one of the greatest scamps even among that most scampish body, he for a very long period endeavoured to acquire the enviable notoriety of a flash man; that is, in the terms of the immortal Shakspeare,
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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