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SCAPEGRACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scapegrace mean?
• SCAPEGRACE (noun)
The noun SCAPEGRACE has 1 sense:
1. a reckless and unprincipled reprobate
Familiarity information: SCAPEGRACE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reckless and unprincipled reprobate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
black sheep; scapegrace
Hypernyms ("scapegrace" is a kind of...):
Context examples
You've grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Merely looking at me with extravagant slyness, and not waiting for any reply, she continued, without drawing breath: There! If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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