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‘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.’
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