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streetwise [street-wise] ; crafty ; street urchin ; slum urchin ; urchin ; street arab ; rascal ; scallywag [scalawag, -USA] ; rapscallion ; street gamin ; gamin.
And because it refuses to express itself in the kind of language we have to assume would be natural to Slake himself slangy, staccato, flip, street-wise we are forced into the position of observing him rather than feeling at one with him.
Crafty! He wanted nothing to do with the straitjacket of guidelines and so-called standards = Crafty! He wanted nothing to do with the straitjacket of guidelines and so-called standards.
The author examines Whistler's visits to the more squalid sections of the city, his views along the Thames and his portrayals of street urchins.
Victorian photographs of social commentary ranged from the pseudo-sentimental slum urchins of Oscar Rejlander to the stark honest portrayal of the horrible conditions of the Glascow slums by Thomas Annan.
This is a film that that will melt hearts of stone, with its cast of scruffy urchins who learn both song and life lessons under the tutelage of a paternalistic mentor at a grim boarding school for 'difficult' boys .
Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons.
And although they may pose themselves as very religious, they are simply rascals.
In other words, we either have morons or thugs running the White House - or perhaps one moron, one thug, and a smattering of scalawags in between.
In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
On arrival in Algiers we were besieged by boot-blacks and street gamins whenever we stopped to inquire the way.
He gradually spends more time on the streets with the gamins and less time at home.
