scamp
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Without pressing the matter, the script by Mr. Johnson, Todd Bartels, Lou Howe and Matthew Miller illustrates how vital it is for a young scamp to get corrected by tough, pitiless direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But for now he is a jovial Irish scamp, with the merest hint of a dark streak; where Sherlock comes from money, James, as he’s called here, is at school on a scholarship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Flamboyant and gregarious, Mr. Del Tredici cultivated a reputation as a beloved scamp who did what he wanted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
Hopefully, Joshua watched “The Mandalorian” when he was young, because this little scamp is going to try his patience, or, you know, annihilate existence as we know it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Nor would she see Simon, or Miss Mortimer or Mrs. Clarke, or even that dear scamp Nutsawoo!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
When it comes to naughty scamps, American literature has Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Saturday was a night of four headliners at Glastonbury, with fans facing the cruel choice between pop queen Charli XCX, rock legend Neil Young, disco scamps Scissor Sisters and Doechii - rap's hottest new voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
Nearly as ripe for the Broadway-musical treatment are the loveable scamps who ran heavily indebted cities in the 19th century.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2023
One bird fell to the ground, and after the scamps scattered, Kentigern stroked its feathers and prayed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
"Pity you can't do something to help," she retorted, "instead of loafing about with that pack of lazy scamps."
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
Book reviews miss the irascible authority of Edmund Wilson, though on occasion the scamped book section is rescued by John Updike or V.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hope the pater’s not going to ask too much about the Louvre, because we scamped it.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
The two lower classes scamped their gymnasium work to make it a success.
From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson
While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is no scamping of the invisible details.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he has played up trivialities while scamping essentials: Becket's great career as Chancellor is passed over; his clashes with Henry, on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, go unused.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is what I call a real bit of scamping; but, honestly, I did not think I was putting it in so bad as that, but I then knew hardly anything about the material.
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman
He had been taking a little pains with the work, doing it something like properly, instead of scamping and rushing it in the usual way.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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