What's the difference between bastard and scoundrel?

Bastard


Definition:

  • (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
  • (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
  • (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
  • (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
  • (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
  • (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
  • (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
  • (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
  • (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
  • (v. t.) To bastardize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
  • (2) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
  • (3) An officer claimed McKenna had shouted: "Fucking Yankee bastards out."
  • (4) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
  • (5) The Duchess of Cambridge is too thin, has a “bastard of a job” and was pressured into getting pregnant a second time, Germaine Greer says.
  • (6) "Don't be such an ungrateful bastard," God snapped.
  • (7) ", but nothing helped, there was so much other noise – both the helicopter above us and the bastard's rifle.
  • (8) A nonchromaffin paraganglioma was found in the periglandular connective tissue of the glandula suprarenalis of a sheep-dog bastard and characterized by histological and immunohistochemical techniques.
  • (9) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
  • (10) She ended up having six children with him and he was a real bastard to her, left her when I was a baby.
  • (11) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
  • (12) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (13) For instance: I'd place a bet that if our Paralympic football team loses in the first round, they will still be described as "inspirational"; if the regular England team had done the same at Euro 2012 they would be called a bunch of bastards.
  • (14) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
  • (15) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
  • (16) "We told the mujahideen to leave it to us ordinary Fallujans, but those bloody bastards, the sheikhs and the clerics, are busy painting some bloody mad picture of heaven and martyrs and the victory of the mujahideen," said Ali, another refugee.
  • (17) Former leader Michael Howard, dubbed by John Major as one of the Eurosceptic "bastards", voiced strong backing.
  • (18) This has been encouraged by the press' standard strike narrative: these selfish bastards are striking, this is bad, and it will affect you in this awful unacceptable way of maybe making you slightly late for work.
  • (19) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (20) "I am now able to tell my staff there is light at the end of the tunnel rather than some bastard antagonising us with a torch."

Scoundrel


Definition:

  • (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
  • (a.) Low; base; mean; unprincipled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cutts-McKay said he regretted ever agreeing to work at Al-Madinah, saying of the trust and governors: "The worst mistake I ever made was getting involved with that shower of scoundrels."
  • (2) Boris Johnson has always struck me as an enigma wrapped inside a whoopee cushion Yes, those of us who woke up on Friday 24 June to discover that far from being patriots, under the new dispensation we were very likely to be regarded as not simply scoundrels but quite possibly traitors.
  • (3) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
  • (4) He lambasted those at the top of Kremlin power as “thieves, scoundrels and traitors who must be destroyed”.
  • (5) A younger version of Solo will instead return in a new spin-off , tipped to appear in 2018, with Dave Franco, Logan Lerman and Scott Eastwood reportedly among the frontrunners to play the sardonic space scoundrel.
  • (6) He had a totally persuasive interview style which led to the unmasking of a scoundrel."
  • (7) In the immediate postwar period, he was the handsome scoundrel in Giuseppe De Santis's neo-realist melodrama Bitter Rice (1948), in which he was first seen on international screens.
  • (8) Tom Riddles Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire • Stuart Rose perhaps needs to be reminded of Samuel Johnson’s remark: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Tim Gossling Cambridge
  • (9) The general public may not share Hislop's tendency to quirky nostalgia, but they certainly think that today's politicians are scoundrels.
  • (10) He is a very bad man (if you like, or if you don't like), but he may be the purest-spoken scoundrel in all the movies.
  • (11) They say that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and we are seeing that truism yet again with the government,” Shorten said.
  • (12) However, that script was reversed on Wednesday as Fiorina repeatedly referenced God, the constitution and the founding fathers while Cruz bashed Trump as “a no-good scoundrel” and “a big government New York liberal, who is a Washington insider, who agrees with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama”.
  • (13) It is better to be safe than sorry, or, as my mother was fond of saying, "I don't have a grammar school education but I can spot one scoundrel".
  • (14) Patriotism is indeed the last recourse to which a scoundrel clings.
  • (15) Did we believe Boris Johnson to be a scoundrel, or someone whose ruling passion was the love of his country?
  • (16) The person causing much of that bleeding is Sterling Archer himself, a figure informed not only by secret agents such as Bond and Matt Helm, but also by George MacDonald Fraser's literary soldier-scoundrel Flashman (who Reed reckons makes Archer "seem like a social worker").
  • (17) On idle scoundrel parasites – 2005 Asked how he rated the role of professional TV pundits, Mourinho told the Sunday Express: “The best job in the world is to be a sacked coach.
  • (18) Iam not going to suggest, as some scoundrel who shares a name with me did on these pages last year, that we should welcome a recession.
  • (19) You expect Peel to have a lot of splattercore records with titles like I'll Be Glad When You're Dead – but who would have suspected a liking for a-ha's 1986 multi-platinum opus Scoundrel Days ?
  • (20) It’s a choice between scoundrels.” Many voters, especially younger ones, feel ill-equipped to make that choice.