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verb

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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
  • Such exports are legal, as long as the monkeys are properly labeled.
    ByRefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Just then, there was a flash of lightning, and the monkey’s paw wriggled in the old man’s hand.
    Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Majors also played the mega villain He Who Remains in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaia.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As previously announced, Robert Downey Jr. will be back as the villain Doctor Doom instead of Iron Man.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Read: America is botching measles The administration’s actions all emphasize personal freedom.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Oklahoma's approach to acquiring and administering lethal drugs has come under serious scrutiny in recent years, with the state corrections office previously accused of botching procedures inside the execution chamber and then facing an extensive public safety probe.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • To break the cycle of bias, Play devil’s advocate with yourself.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Fire in the birthing cabin, where another devil stands.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • By the end of the episode, the audience is eager to meet the antihero, the brute, that everyone is talking about.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Slinging a sports coat over his pajamas, Long pulls up to a curb and finds Tay (Dustin Nguyen), the Vietnamese speaker, plus two silent brutes, Eddie (Phi Vu) and Aden (Dali Benssalah), who muscle into his car and take over everything: the seating arrangements, the air freshener and their driver.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the kid has thrown for over 3,000 yards with 19 TDS to only 5 INTs, has led the team back multiple times in 4th quarters only to have the coaches bungle things, and holds an ongoing record for most passes by a rookie QB with no picks.
    Kevin Fishbain, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the robbery sent an Oklahoma sheriff’s posse and bloodhounds after these bungling desperados.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The first major update, aptly titled Title Update 1, is set to be released later this week, and brings new monsters, new activities, and more for players of the game.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • White Painted Woman was a model of heroism and honorable womanhood: When evil monsters were hunting the Apache people, the White Painted Woman gave birth to a son who would destroy the creatures to help make Earth inhabitable for humanity.
    Alejandra Rubio, NPR, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Scamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scamp. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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