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Перевод: scapegrace

[существительное]
шалопай ; повеса ; бездельник

Тезаурус:

1. A French scapegrace painter named Jean Baptiste Le Prince has been credited with its invention or at least its perfecting.
2. It was, as The Times observed in the following year, a sorry fact that there was "a vague dread of a wholesome birching" and that nowadays "the father of a scapegrace" no longer saw fit to "save his son from the taint of gaol by loyally and soundly whipping him".
3. David as a child "sustained my own idea" of Roderick Random, the scapegrace selfish hero of this picaresque novel, "for a month at a stretch", could see Roderick's faithful servant Strap at the wicket of Blunderstone church, and when Micawber went to the King's Bench, remembered Roderick's imprisonment for debt (chap.
4. This permits the introduction of a variety of characters, on the road and in London, and although the central figure is pathetic, most of those surrounding her are grotesque or comic, the most appealing of the latter being the lively scapegrace, Dick Swiveller.
5. I take leave to assume that none of my readers belong to this scapegrace company, but wish to cherish their possessions.