granuja
shyster ; miscreant ; villain ; tearaway ; lager lout ; street urchin ; slum urchin ; urchin ; street arab ; rascal ; scallywag [scalawag, -USA] ; rapscallion ; cad ; ragamuffin ; ruffian ; hoodlum ; swine ; pig ; crook ; street gamin ; gamin ; knave.
When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
The forest, therefore, is regarded as the abode of robbers & sundry miscreants, implying its relation to the forces of chaos & disorder.
The father, Old Brightwell, curses his daughter, Jane, for preferring the love of the smooth-tongued villain, Grandley, to that of her own parents.
He acused politicians of 'losing the plot' on crime as the 'thriving yob culture' of hooligans and tearaways terrorise the streets.
It is routine for people to complain about the 'hordes of lager louts' who turn city centres into 'no-go areas'.
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.
Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.
He was looking affably at the two dubious ragamuffins and, moreover, even making inviting gestures to them.
The coroner said she had died not from drowning, but from being abused and murdered by a gang of ruffians.
Gangs of hoodlums, aged as young as eight, are roaming the streets terrorising store owners and shoppers in broad daylight.
In German law it is a criminal offense for A to insult B, for example, by calling him a swine.
He was waiting for the opportunity to unleash his fury, no one calls him a pig and gets away with it.
The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
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.
I will not open my mouth to utter a single word while I am in the company of such knaves.
