Translation for 'scoundrel' from English to Russian

scoundrel

подлец {м}

мерзавец {м}

• 'Furfur' or 'furfures' in Latin means "bran". However it seems more likely that the name is a corruption of 'furcifer', the Latin word for scoundrel.
• Girolamo Cardano in his 1562 book "Encomium Neronis" describes Tacitus as a scoundrel of the worst kind, belonging to the rich senatorial class and always taking their side against the common people.
• The 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary reflects the 19th century understanding of the word "wikt:ruffian" as a "scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person".
• Nizam grew to become ruler of the country, and assisted Omar in his studies. Hassan became a scheming scoundrel whose lusting after the beautiful Shirin was cut short by his clever wife.
• The fiction revolves around the mishaps in a Catholic parish church, primarily featuring the stories of two priests (one of whom is impersonated by his twin brother, a scoundrel) and a bishop.

• She wrote an article on Jewish and Black Reconstruction Era Mississippi Secretary of Education Thomas W. Cardozo describing him as a scoundrel.
• "Lazzarella", the title of the song, is a colloquial word that refers to a woman who is a "little scoundrel" or a "little rascal".
• A scoundrel encounters the two scientists inside Beiping, without knowing who they are, and attempts to rob them.
• Many cattle were killed in late 1925 along the river boundary to the station. Byrne posted a £50 reward for information leading to the conviction of the "scoundrel" responsible.
• While they are discussing how to make her father, Marko, give his consent to their marriage, her father himself appears and drives Mića off, refusing to give shelter to a scoundrel.

• A ruffian is a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
• A passenger on a sinking ship debates with himself whether or not to surrender to his fate. A scoundrel of some sort who has escaped trial and prison, he eventually drowns.
• Thomas Sheridan thought him "an eminent Banker", but Jonathan Swift dismissed him as "a scrupulous puppy" and "a shuffling scoundrel".
• Ayari ([...] adjective of عَيّار "ayyār" "vagabond, scoundrel" surname.
• In Yiddish a derived noun, formed with the Slavonic "-nik" nominalizing suffix, is [...] 'scoundrel' (feminine [...]) but this is not used with the strength of the original epithet [...].