scoundrel

English[edit]

Possibly related to northern English or Scottish scunner: "to shrink back in fear or loathing" (Encyclopædia Britannica 1911).

scoundrel (plural scoundrels)

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
- Alexander Pope
  Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood / Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.

villain

Afrikaans: skelm (af)
Arabic: وَغْد‎ m (waḡd), نَذْل‎ m (naḏl), أَزْعَر‎ m (ʾazʿar), شِرِّير‎ (ar) m (širrīr), مِلْط‎ m (milṭ), وَضِيع‎ m (waḍīʿ), شَقِيّ‎ m (šaqiyy)
Armenian: սրիկա (hy) (srika)
Bulgarian: него́дник (bg) m (negódnik), мерза́вец (bg) m (merzávec)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 惡棍 (zh), 恶棍 (zh) (ègùn), 坏家伙 (huàijiāhuo), 混混兒 (zh), 混混儿 (zh) (hùnhùnr) (Northern Mandarin), 壞蛋 (zh), 坏蛋 (zh) (huàidàn), 無籟, 无籁 (wúlài), 渾蛋 (zh), 浑蛋 (zh) (húndàn), 流氓 (zh) (liúmáng), 壞人 (zh), 坏人 (zh) (huàirén), 混球 (zh) (húnqiú)
Czech: gauner m
Dutch: schurk (nl) m, f, schavuit (nl) m, f
Esperanto: kanajlo (eo), malnoblulo, abomenulo
Finnish: roisto (fi), lurjus (fi), konna (fi), ketku (fi), kanalja (fi), hunsvotti (fi), kelmi (fi)
French: scélérat (fr) m, gredin (fr) m, canaille (fr) f
Galician: moinante (gl)
German: Schurke (de) m, Gauner (de) m
Greek: παλιάνθρωπος (el) m (paliánthropos)
Hebrew: בֶּן בְּלִיַּעַל‎ m (ben bliyá'al)
Hindi: बदमाश (hi) (badmāś)
Hungarian: gazember (hu)
Indonesian: bajingan (id), bangsat (id)
Interlingua: scelerato