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Recent Examples of scamp
Noun
Eventually, neighborhood scamps dropped down into the park's stone drainage channel, built in 1934 as a New Deal project and still the park's distinguishing feature, and followed it underground. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 24 June 2024 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
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 See all Example Sentences for scamp 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scamp
Noun
  • The pair also express disbelief at the wide U.S. release of the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, in which the singer is portrayed as a CGI monkey.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The quirky movie, in which a CGI monkey portrays the British singer Robbie Williams, scraped together $255,000 from 1,290 theaters over the weekend and $310,000 through Monday, bringing its domestic tally to an embarrassing $1.8 million.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His affinity for wrestling villains, or heels, adds another layer to his potential return.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His villains include both Presidents Bush; his heroes stretch back to William McKinley but include Richard Nixon, who raised tariffs in response to low-cost manufacturing from Asia, and, Lighthizer insists, Ronald Reagan.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Hauser pitched the ball ahead to Tatum, but the five-time All-Star botched a layup.
    Jay King, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The system has totally broken down — Republicans shirked their responsibilities and Democrats botched theirs.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And there are folk devils being made all around us, so maybe another Nosferatu adaptation is more necessary than ever.
    Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Well of Radiance-using devil Exo as my big pull who is yes, better than all my other characters instantly.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Maliki is a divisive brute whom Iran supports to the hilt.
    Dov Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2014
  • One million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The Bulls bungled the first game of a favorable stretch.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The Jets bungled five fourth quarter leads and lost, often with Rodgers, ball in his hands late in the game with a chance to win it.
    Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Orange cats have earned an online reputation for being chaotic, energetic rascals.
    Gayoung Lee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Eventually, Sergei — now going by Kraven — begins knocking off a growing list of poachers, corporate rascals and international kingpins.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Set in a new location with new monsters, Wilds introduces a new type of mount, new monsters, an improved wound system, focus mode, and a new tool called the hook slinger.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Scamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scamp. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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