| They persisted in the belief that the fellow they were after was a shamefaced scapegrace whose tactics would be studiedly underhanded, and that he was bent on pulling the wool over their eyes. |
| On Saturday night BBC 2 screened the Woody Allen film Sweet And Lowdown, about a scapegrace 1930s jazz guitarist. |
| Although Byron had cultivated a reputation as a fighter and scapegrace at Harrow, he could not allow his former tutor, a mere commoner, to define him. |
| In five minutes' time the chaise was ready, and this good scapegrace in his saddle. |
| He is sorely taken aback, too, by the dutiful behaviour of his nephew and has a woeful consciousness upon him of being a scapegrace. |
| Other words of this type are daredevil, scapegrace, and scarecrow. |
