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单词 mauvais sujet
释义

mauvais sujetn.

Brit. /məʊˈveɪ suːˈʒeɪ/, U.S. /moʊˈveɪ suˈʒeɪ/
Inflections: Plural mauvais sujets.
Forms: 1700s mauvais subjet (irregular), 1700s– mauvais sujet.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mauvais sujet.
Etymology: < French mauvais sujet poor specimen (1740) < mauvais bad (see mauvasty n.) + sujet subject n. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the non-naturalized pronunciation (movę süʒę) /mɔvɛ syʒɛ/.
A worthless person, a bad lot.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun]
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nebulona1475
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naughty pack?1534
brathel1542
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wandrel?1567
land-loper1570
scald1575
baggage1594
arrant1605
good-for-nothing1611
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vauneant1621
idle-pack1624
thimble-maker1654
never-do-well1664
ne'er-be-good1675
shack1682
vagabond1686
shag-bag1699
houndsfoot1710
blackguard1732
ne'er-do-well1737
trumpery1738
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good-for-naught1773
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mauvais sujet1793
scamp1808
waffie1808
loose fish1809
ne'er-do-good1814
hard bargain1818
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shicer1846
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
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rodney1877
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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > person of bad character
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bad lot1835
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wrong 'un1892
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1793 T. Fremantle in Wynne Diaries (1952) xix. 251 Find the surgeon to be a mauvais subjet [sic], talk much to him. He crys, and promises to amend.
1797 Lady A. Barnard Let. 29 Nov. in S. Afr. Cent. Ago (1910) vi. 107 The Oath of Allegiance..has been constantly evaded by certain mauvais sujets who live there [i.e. in Stellenbosch], in number about a dozen.
1813 A. Romilly Let. 12 Aug. in S. H. Romilly Romilly–Edgeworth Lett. (1936) 56 The youngest son, who was a very mauvais sujet, has just been killed in a duel.
1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 179 I will lay my life, you two desperate mauvais sujets came here together!
a1845 R. H. Barham Brothers of Birchington in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 148 Up to Kent—not Kentuck—and at once fetch away A snob there—I guess that's a Mauvais Sujet.
1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly viii. 171 These mauvais sujets had maltreated their own countrymen and women.
1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 56 Rome had failed to save one of its children, and even if that mauvais sujet had been guilty of recusancy, in the offspring's downfall the parent was no less undone.
1975 A. Christie Curtain v. 46 The mauvais sujet—always women are attracted to him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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