scaramouch

variants or scaramouche

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of scaramouch Much like his namesake, the scaramouch, the Mooch masquerades as a useful idiot and a sly schemer, performing both roles while never forgetting to enthrall the audience and, most important, the boss. Tiana Lowe, National Review, 28 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scaramouch
Noun
  • With Edusei’s fastidious beat, the orchestra played with hair-trigger precision, and a huge dynamic range, in Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • Located just steps from Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine, Tablespoon Cooking Co. has classes available to sign up for online that cater to a variety of dishes, from tacos and margaritas to eclairs and cream puffs.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Head up here on a Sunday for their tea service, which includes tasty bites like anchovy toast with Calabrian chili and parsley, housemade vanilla cream puffs, mini honey butter scones, and Himalayan black tea from In Pursuit of Tea.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At best, Trantalis and Glassman are being played for fools.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2025
  • Not even the streamers could provide a lot of new entertainment for us fools.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Clark said ostrich growers can access some U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that cover the loss of grass that birds graze on, but otherwise there isn't much assistance.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 July 2025
  • There were also yaks, deer, buffalo, camels, a kangaroo, ostriches, eight monkeys, six raccoons, two grizzly bears, black bears, brown bears, seals, lions, an old tiger, a blind hyena, a circus elephant, an alligator and 400 birds, including a talking crow.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.
    Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • The militant Islamic terrorist government of Iran, which has been waging terror and war on the United States for more than forty years, has killed close to as many Americans as the Japanese did during their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, which led to war with Japan.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
  • Nintendo Switch 2 hits the shelves Nintendo’s first new console in 8 years is finally in stores, but before the first units were sold, Fox News got a sneak peak at some of the new games developed for the Switch 2.
    Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Listen to this article Nikola Jokic rolled up in the Joker’s suit, then performed like a court jester.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 10 May 2025
  • The plague has arrived, represented by a jester figure who is infected with it.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • His off-field antics have long been part of his brand.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
  • Aside from the on-and-off antics of Ye and his split from his bromance with Pusha T, The Clipse are gearing up for one of Hip-Hop’s biggest drops of the year.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 10 July 2025

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“Scaramouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scaramouch. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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