SCOUNDRELS Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

scoundrels

noun

plural of scoundrel

as in villains

a mean, evil, or unprincipled person some scoundrel stole my wallet

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Recent Examples of scoundrels But as with any good Leonard story, the best moments come from the characters, a rogues’ gallery of violent ruffians and neurotic, duplicitous scoundrels. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026 Players command Hawks, a former Republic officer, leading a customizable squad of diverse archetypes, including Jedi and scoundrels. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 And the surviving cartel scoundrels take the parting shot by kidnapping beloved Carter, putting a hood on him and taking the boy off. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026 New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 Political leaders who encourage or tolerate such scoundrels should be driven from office. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026 Giannis, a gentleman even in this era of scoundrels, likely wants to do right by the Bucks, too. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025 These twin influences, religious fervor and a preoccupation with dangerous men, would go on to define the next six decades of the director’s working life, finding expression as a conviction that even scoundrels are in possession of a soul. — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025 Meanwhile, the nation’s financial titans, so admired during the boom years, were recast as villains and scoundrels. — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2025

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Noun

Directed by Grammy Award-winning filmmaker James Mackel, the visual is three-and-a-half minutes of spy stuff, our hero, dressed to impress, making short work of the many villains who lurk in her hotel.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2026
One of Batman’s creepiest villains is descending upon the box office this weekend.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of villains

Noun

These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.

— Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of brutes

Noun

Also protect the email account associated with your Social Security profile because criminals may target it to reset other passwords.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Ford placed the inmate’s bid for clemency on the agenda of the state pardons board — an example, Lombardo claims, of the way Ford treats criminals.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

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