1
as in monkey
an appealingly mischievous person
those little scamps are always getting into trouble, but no one has the heart to punish them
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2
as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
an insincere and ruthlessly ambitious scamp who was willing to do anything to win the reality show's grand prize
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as in to botch
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Recent Examples of scamp
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
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
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Noun
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
Verb
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scamp
Noun
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Other surprises found inside this space that exists outside our reality are monkeys trained to post hate on Superman online like real-life trolls, and one creepy guy nicknamed Mister Handsome.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
17 July 2025
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Infant subjects—aside from those excluded for fussiness, crying, or non-completion—showed no preference for a stuffed cheetah, elephant, lion, or monkey toy purportedly proffered by a human woman over one purportedly proffered by a robot.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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The film is currently filming in London with Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors behind the highest-grossing MCU movies ever, back behind the camera; Downey now playing the chief villain; and a slew of stars from the lost era of Fox's X-Men movies reprising their roles for the first time in years.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
24 July 2025
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In 1994, Hogan joined WCW and reinvented himself as a villain, forming the New World Order (nWo) and ushering in a new era of edgy storytelling.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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Cops are looking for a man who rammed into six people after botching a turn at an intersection in the Bronx, authorities said Wednesday.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
17 July 2025
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Prominent conservatives are sounding political alarms for President Donald Trump, accusing the Justice Department of botching a review and release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
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In his mug shot, Anton bears little resemblance to the handsome devil from the earlier composite image.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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To play devil’s advocate to myself, though, this time around the contestants have air conditioning, which might have been a deal-breaker in order to get any contestants from The Golden Bachelor/ette there.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
8 July 2025
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King's polo playing husband, Bill Mitchell — who went on to become a director for Texaco — became the model for Daisy’s rich brute of a husband, Tom Buchanan.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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This freshly re-imagined Jag is worlds apart from that old German brute, but was similar in the sense of feeling wonderfully light and responsive, and utilizing hydraulic fluid to power its steering.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The same is true for the United States, which leads in oil and gas production but has bungled its position in clean energy thanks to political dysfunction.—
Wal van Lierop,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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By the time Corbin filed a complaint to the Florida Bar on July 17, 2023, Stealth Supply had filed a complaint to the Florida Bar that Mullins bungled, then abandoned their case.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2025
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And now, without further ado, an ode to the rogues and rascals who make being hot and doing crimes in this galaxy so fun to watch.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.—
Percy Brown,
Outdoor Life,
12 June 2025
Noun
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The enormous bones and monster jaws, the ridged backs and barbed tails.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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Scott, in particular, is a perennial chart monster, with 2023’s Utopia debuting with nearly 500,000 units.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
13 July 2025
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“Scamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scamp. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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