Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Clearly we don't want those families to be taken advantage of by scoundrels or scam artists.