Word Meanings - SCOUNDRELISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.

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• RASCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.
• BASENESS
  The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
• SCOUNDRELISM
  The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• CONDUCTRESS
  A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
• CONDUCTOR
  The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
• SCOUNDREL
  A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope. (more info) scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun.
• CONDUCTIBILITY
  1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity. 2. Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
• CONDUCT
  1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct
• CONDUCTION
  Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. communication from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc. (more info) 1.
• CONDUCTORY
  Having the property of conducting.
• CONDUCTANCE
  Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm. Conductance is an attribute of any specified conductor, and refers to its shape, length, and other factors. Conductivity is an attribute of
• CONDUCTIBLE
  Capable of being conducted.
• CONDUCTIVE
  Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive. Goodale
• SCOUNDRELDOM
  The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels. Carlyle.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• NONCONDUCTING
  Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• RADIOCONDUCTOR
  A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.
• UNDERCONDUCT
  A lower conduit; a subterranean conduit. Sir H. Wotton.
• NONCONDUCTOR
  A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of
• RECONDUCT
  To conduct back or again. "A guide to reconduct thy steps." Dryden.