[ noun ] a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately <noun.person>
Scoundrel \Scoun"drel\, n. [Probably from Prov. E. & Scotch scunner, scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun. See {Shun}.] A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood. --Pope.
Scoundrel \Scoun"drel\, a. Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
It's kind of like `48 Hrs."' Kristofferson will play the ranger, nicknamed Rip, while Nelson is to portray the scoundrel.
The pins, buttons and T-shirts this year are deeply derisive of Governor Bill Clinton, who is portrayed as a womanising, draft-dodging scoundrel. But negativity does not rule the whole roost.
"If we took action, there wouldn't be any necessity for rhetoric," he said. "It's naive for his speechwriters to say, `Drop the political rhetoric,' if they are going to make a deal with the scoundrel" in Panama.