Granuja in english
Rascal
pronunciation: ræskəl part of speech: noun
pronunciation: ræskəl part of speech: noun
In gestures
granuja = shyster ; miscreant ; villain ; tearaway ; lager lout ; street urchin ; slum urchin ; urchin ; street arab ; rascal ; scallywag [scalawag, -USA] ; rapscallion ; cad ; ragamuffin ; ruffian ; hoodlum ; swine ; pig ; crook ; street gamin ; gamin ; knave ; son of a bitch ; son of a gun ; scoundrel ; dirtbag ; rascally.
Example: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.Example: The forest, therefore, is regarded as the abode of robbers & sundry miscreants, implying its relation to the forces of chaos & disorder.Example: The father, Old Brightwell, curses his daughter, Jane, for preferring the love of the smooth-tongued villain, Grandley, to that of her own parents.Example: He acused politicians of 'losing the plot' on crime as the 'thriving yob culture' of hooligans and tearaways terrorise the streets.Example: It is routine for people to complain about the 'hordes of lager louts' who turn city centres into 'no-go areas'.Example: The author examines Whistler's visits to the more squalid sections of the city, his views along the Thames and his portrayals of street urchins.Example: Victorian photographs of social commentary ranged from the pseudo-sentimental slum urchins of Oscar Rejlander to the stark honest portrayal of the horrible conditions of the Glascow slums by Thomas Annan.Example: This is a film that that will melt hearts of stone, with its cast of scruffy urchins who learn both song and life lessons under the tutelage of a paternalistic mentor at a grim boarding school for 'difficult' boys .Example: Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons.Example: And although they may pose themselves as very religious, they are simply rascals.Example: In other words, we either have morons or thugs running the White House -- or perhaps one moron, one thug, and a smattering of scalawags in between.Example: In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.Example: Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.Example: He was looking affably at the two dubious ragamuffins and, moreover, even making inviting gestures to them.Example: The coroner said she had died not from drowning, but from being abused and murdered by a gang of ruffians.Example: Gangs of hoodlums, aged as young as eight, are roaming the streets terrorising store owners and shoppers in broad daylight.Example: In German law it is a criminal offense for A to insult B, for example, by calling him a swine.Example: He was waiting for the opportunity to unleash his fury, no one calls him a pig and gets away with it.Example: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.Example: On arrival in Algiers we were besieged by boot-blacks and street gamins whenever we stopped to inquire the way.Example: He gradually spends more time on the streets with the gamins and less time at home.Example: I will not open my mouth to utter a single word while I am in the company of such knaves.Example: I'd love to see that son of a bitch roasted on a spit, but only God knows why, she's sticking by his side.Example: Soon bad things will happen to Nabal and his family because he's such a son of a gun that nobody can talk sense to him.Example: Here came every sort of human ingredient -- sturdy homesteaders, skilled craftsmen, precious scoundrels.Example: He is such a dirtbag, but for some reason I love him.Example: It's based on the premise that the rascally behavior of young boys is not only a fact of life, but an essential step in a boy's development.more:
» granuja sin escrúpulos = dirty rotten scoundrel ; rotten sod .
Example: Catholics worldwide will sleep better knowing that once again, the Vatican has forgiven the Beatles for being such dirty rotten scoundrels. Example: I can't imagine how you must have felt, and I sincerely hope that the rotten sod who pinched it gets caught.