SCAMP in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for SCAMP, such as:
1. Undeniably Captain Butler was a scamp, for all that he danced divinely.
2. He was such an engaging scamp that his mother almost lacked the heart to punish him.
3. How strange that Ashley should be impressed by something that scamp had said a year ago.
4. No one but a scamp would say the things about the Confederacy that he had said at the bazaar.
5. One day, in the Rue de l'Universite, one of these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No.
2. He was such an engaging scamp that his mother almost lacked the heart to punish him.
3. How strange that Ashley should be impressed by something that scamp had said a year ago.
4. No one but a scamp would say the things about the Confederacy that he had said at the bazaar.
5. One day, in the Rue de l'Universite, one of these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No.
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Meanings and Examples of SCAMP
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scamp
n. one that is dishonest or troublemaker, especially a impish youngster
Classic Sentence:
1 He was a miserable scamp, a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust.
2 He has been recognized by four persons; the old scamp will be condemned.
3 Thenardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a scamp of a temperate sort.
4 The first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives.
5 She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Eponine disguised herself like a man.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE...
6 How strange that Ashley should be impressed by something that scamp had said a year ago.
7 Undeniably Captain Butler was a scamp, for all that he danced divinely.
8 No one but a scamp would say the things about the Confederacy that he had said at the bazaar.
9 She loved him, scamp, blackguard, without scruple or honor--at least, honor as Ashley saw it.
10 He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came across.
11 One day, in the Rue de l'Universite, one of these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAY...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAY...
12 From the impeachment of Strafford to Farmer Lynch's short way with the scamps of Virginia there have been many triumphs of justice which are mockeries of law.
Example Sentence:
1 He was such an engaging scamp that his mother almost lacked the heart to punish him.