the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The practices of a scoundrel; baseness; turpitude; rascality.
Word Usage
"Dictionary defined knave, a scoundrel; sneakup, a scoundrel; rascal, a scoundrel; loon, a scoundrel; lout, a scoundrel; poltroon, a scoundrel; and that he coined the word scoundrelism '(Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 25,"