• IPA: /ˈskaʊ̯ndɹəl/

scoundrel (plural scoundrels)

1. A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
   • 1734, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle IV, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗, lines 201–202, page 14 ↗:

     Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept thro' Scoundrels ever ſince the Flood.

• see also Thesaurus:villain

• French: scélérat, gredin, canaille
• German: Schurke, Gauner
• Italian: canaglia, farabutto, furfante, mascalzone, briccone, disonesto, manigoldo
• Portuguese: canalha
• Russian: негодя́й
• Spanish: bribón, canalla, bellaco, villano, malandrín, pillastre