scamped; scamping; scamps
: to perform or deal with in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner
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Noun
those little scamps are always getting into trouble, but no one has the heart to punish them
an insincere and ruthlessly ambitious scamp who was willing to do anything to win the reality show's grand prize
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Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
Because a leathery little scamp like E.T. is lovable only in the uninhibited mind of a child; fear, distrust, and paranoia are born of experience and disappointment.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
Sunshine scamps: The Florida Project is a delighful, poignant, dark-and-light movie about kids living on the seedy side of Disney.
—Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 6 Oct. 2017
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Noun
Dogs were the reigning scamps in most households and were twice as likely as cats to cause damage.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
Because a leathery little scamp like E.T. is lovable only in the uninhibited mind of a child; fear, distrust, and paranoia are born of experience and disappointment.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
Verb
While its individual characters feel largely interchangeable, the movie hums with life and pleasure when Borowczyk lets his nuns twirl around the chapel in a painterly tableau and scamp through the convent.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
Sunshine scamps: The Florida Project is a delighful, poignant, dark-and-light movie about kids living on the seedy side of Disney.
—Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 6 Oct. 2017
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“Scamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scamp. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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