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Definition of bounder in English: boundernoun ˈbaʊndəˈbaʊndər British dated, informal A dishonourable man. 〈非正式,旧,主英〉不道德的人 he is nothing but a fortune-seeking bounder 他只不过是个不讲道德的投机者。 Example sentencesExamples - It's often been hinted that he was something of a bounder.
- Wilde's bounders were young men in their twenties.
- Many see the casting as ironic because Wickham is something of a bounder who eventually elopes with one of the Bennett girls.
- For example, I think stable means unchanging or changing slowly, and decent means not a cad or a bounder.
- Vain of his looks - there is an almost naive touch of the bounder in the sleek face and over-large smile - he has always sought glamour and popularity, attributes more of the stage than the boardroom.
- It's a measure of population growth, which (unless he's more of a bounder than we know) he is not responsible for.
- The charming Tim is a lying bounder and desperate for money to feed his fantasy life as a successful high flyer.
- He was a cad and a bounder, but not without charm.
- Clearly I am a bounder, possibly a drink-soaked one.
- This is necessary because fiddling the regimental books is clearly the action of a bounder and a cad, and shows an unheroic concern for money.
- The bounders promise to unmask my alter-ego, that most dandy of highwaymen, Dick Turpin, in a new show in York next week.
- Each is a sealed-off snow-globe environment with its own never - ending story played out by grandmothers, married couples, young folk, rogues, gossips, cads, bounders and tarts.
- Baseball history bulges with hundreds of other bounders, knaves, and lunatics who were not anywhere near as talented.
- My friends think he is something of a bounder but he says it is totally out of character for him to behave in this way.
- You're a cad and a bounder Sir and I demand satisfaction.
- It was once de rigueur for rakes and bounders to attach titles to their names; they would become mysterious barons and outcast counts.
- The verve of the author's performance can make it hard to see the whole picture clearly; in reading it I felt almost as if I were being charmed by a bounder; but is he a bounder?
- But Bennett was, of course, despised by the intelligentsia because the bounder made money from literature.
- ‘He is the biggest bounder on the face of the earth,’ says the Mirror, which awards him five rodent symbols.
- Brought up to believe her dad is an abandoned bounder, Pam is surprised to discover Paul is a bit of a charmer.
Synonyms criminal, lawbreaker, outlaw, offender, felon, convict, jailbird, malefactor, wrongdoer, black hat, supervillain
Rhymescompounder, expounder, flounder, founder, grounder, impounder, pounder, propounder, rounder, sounder Definition of bounder in US English: boundernounˈboundərˈbaʊndər British dated, informal A dishonorable man. 〈非正式,旧,主英〉不道德的人 he is nothing but a fortune-seeking bounder 他只不过是个不讲道德的投机者。 Example sentencesExamples - Wilde's bounders were young men in their twenties.
- It's a measure of population growth, which (unless he's more of a bounder than we know) he is not responsible for.
- ‘He is the biggest bounder on the face of the earth,’ says the Mirror, which awards him five rodent symbols.
- Many see the casting as ironic because Wickham is something of a bounder who eventually elopes with one of the Bennett girls.
- Vain of his looks - there is an almost naive touch of the bounder in the sleek face and over-large smile - he has always sought glamour and popularity, attributes more of the stage than the boardroom.
- The bounders promise to unmask my alter-ego, that most dandy of highwaymen, Dick Turpin, in a new show in York next week.
- The verve of the author's performance can make it hard to see the whole picture clearly; in reading it I felt almost as if I were being charmed by a bounder; but is he a bounder?
- This is necessary because fiddling the regimental books is clearly the action of a bounder and a cad, and shows an unheroic concern for money.
- My friends think he is something of a bounder but he says it is totally out of character for him to behave in this way.
- Baseball history bulges with hundreds of other bounders, knaves, and lunatics who were not anywhere near as talented.
- Each is a sealed-off snow-globe environment with its own never - ending story played out by grandmothers, married couples, young folk, rogues, gossips, cads, bounders and tarts.
- For example, I think stable means unchanging or changing slowly, and decent means not a cad or a bounder.
- He was a cad and a bounder, but not without charm.
- The charming Tim is a lying bounder and desperate for money to feed his fantasy life as a successful high flyer.
- Clearly I am a bounder, possibly a drink-soaked one.
- Brought up to believe her dad is an abandoned bounder, Pam is surprised to discover Paul is a bit of a charmer.
- It was once de rigueur for rakes and bounders to attach titles to their names; they would become mysterious barons and outcast counts.
- It's often been hinted that he was something of a bounder.
- But Bennett was, of course, despised by the intelligentsia because the bounder made money from literature.
- You're a cad and a bounder Sir and I demand satisfaction.
Synonyms criminal, lawbreaker, outlaw, offender, felon, convict, jailbird, malefactor, wrongdoer, black hat, supervillain |