scoundrel | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: villain |
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scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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scour | (noun) a place that is scoured (especially by running water) | - |
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(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
(verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
(verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
(verb) examine minutely | - |
scoured | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: eroded |
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scourer | (noun) someone who cleanses by scouring | - |
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(noun) someone who travels widely and energetically | - |
scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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(noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
(verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
(verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
(verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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scouring | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scrub, scrubbing |
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(noun) moving over territory to search for something | - |
scours | (noun) diarrhea in livestock | - |
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scouse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscouse, lobscuse |
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scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
(noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
(verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
scouter | (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: rover |
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scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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